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NEW CASTLE -- A freak accident outside New Castle High School on Friday morning claimed the life of a Yorktown plumbing contractor.
Chad Unverzagt, 55, was pronounced dead at St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, where he was rushed by ambulance after the accident, which was reported shortly after 9 a.m.
Unverzagt, of Hoosier A-1 Sanitary Sewer Service, had been called to the high school in response to sewage problems, and had apparently been in the process of clearing a blocked line with a high-pressure water hose.
Ron Burns, director of New Castle-Henry County EMS, said Unverzagt suffered a neck wound that resulted in massive blood loss. The injury apparently was the result of the contractor being hit by the water as it shot from the hose.
"I think the water did it," Burns said.
A school maintenance worker who was assisting Unverzagt was not injured, and he tried to render medical assistance to the victim until an ambulance crew arrived, according to the EMS director.
Resuscitation efforts continued on the ride to Indianapolis, Butler said.
The accident took place near a breezeway that connects the high school and Bundy Auditorium. It is likely to be investigated by the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Burns said the location of the accident was such that some students likely saw its aftermath. A New Castle Community Schools administrator did not return a phone call Friday afternoon.
http://www.thestarpress.com/article...307/Yorktown-man-dies-after-plumbing-accident
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Apparently he was using a 4300 psi machine.
I'd like to know all the facts in this case. I sure hope he didn't just stick a nozzle on the end of a hose and shove it down a pipe.
It was an incident almost exactly like this many years ago that prompted the development of UL-1776 safety standard. Part of that standard states that you have to have a different fitting between the hose and the gun, the gun and the wand, and the wand and the nozzle.
Be safe out there...
Chad Unverzagt, 55, was pronounced dead at St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis, where he was rushed by ambulance after the accident, which was reported shortly after 9 a.m.
Unverzagt, of Hoosier A-1 Sanitary Sewer Service, had been called to the high school in response to sewage problems, and had apparently been in the process of clearing a blocked line with a high-pressure water hose.
Ron Burns, director of New Castle-Henry County EMS, said Unverzagt suffered a neck wound that resulted in massive blood loss. The injury apparently was the result of the contractor being hit by the water as it shot from the hose.
"I think the water did it," Burns said.
A school maintenance worker who was assisting Unverzagt was not injured, and he tried to render medical assistance to the victim until an ambulance crew arrived, according to the EMS director.
Resuscitation efforts continued on the ride to Indianapolis, Butler said.
The accident took place near a breezeway that connects the high school and Bundy Auditorium. It is likely to be investigated by the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Burns said the location of the accident was such that some students likely saw its aftermath. A New Castle Community Schools administrator did not return a phone call Friday afternoon.
http://www.thestarpress.com/article...307/Yorktown-man-dies-after-plumbing-accident
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Apparently he was using a 4300 psi machine.
I'd like to know all the facts in this case. I sure hope he didn't just stick a nozzle on the end of a hose and shove it down a pipe.
It was an incident almost exactly like this many years ago that prompted the development of UL-1776 safety standard. Part of that standard states that you have to have a different fitting between the hose and the gun, the gun and the wand, and the wand and the nozzle.
Be safe out there...