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Nine BILCO floor
doors were installed
at a Connecticut
water-treatment
station. Photos courtesy
Bliss Photography
& Studios
Fall Protection
Reduces Risk
Wastewater facility uses doors with fall-protection grating to provide a safer work environment.
A SEPTEMBER 2020 event in McCook,
NE, shattered the tight-knit community to
its core. Two workers died in an accident at
the town's wastewater facility, including the
facility's long-time superintendent. Details
concerning the accident remain unclear,
but deadly incidents at wastewater facilities
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are not uncommon. Workers at facilities in
Texas, Tennessee, New York, and California
also died that year.
Th e town of Waterford, CT, recently took
a major step forward to improve safety at its
water-treatment plants. Th e town installed
nine doors, manufactured by Th e BILCO
Co., New Haven, CT (bilco.com), that
include fall-protection grating. Th e doors
that were replaced had corroded over time
and lacked fall protection, as do many
older doors.
" Th e old hatches were not required to
have fall protection, " said Jim Bartelli,
SEPTEMBER 2021

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