Alcohol use may have been a major factor in the suffocation of a general maintenance worker repairing a water leak. The victim was working alone, trying to fix a water leak in a water meter pit that was 14 inches (35.6 centimeters) in diameter and four feet (1.2 meters) deep. The valves he was trying to reach were 36 inches(0.9 meters) below the top of the pit, which was at ground level. He knelt beside the opening on both knees, and reached into the pit until his head, both arms and part of his shoulders were inside the opening. He was […]