Cellphone cost two (2) workers their lives inside a PRCS (CH4 & H2S)

At 1:00 p.m. on May 25, 2021, Employee #1 and Employee #2 were conducting maintenance work on a pump above a leachate vault. A coworker dropped a cellphone inside the vault and left to look for a tool to retrieve the cellphone. Employee #1 and Employee #2 entered the vault to retrieve the phone and were overcome by methane and hydrogen sulfide gases and were killed.

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