News Briefs: Two Recent Deaths Underscore Importance of Plant Safety

Two recent accidents at water/wastewater treatment plants in Houston, Texas, and Tracy City, Tennessee resulted in deaths — both calling attention to the importance of safety on treatment facility grounds. In Houston, an employee died after falling into a wastewater treatment plant tank. Officials say he was cleaning the tank, which was filled with water, when he fell in. Witnesses at the scene attempted to pull him out, but by the time paramedics arrived he had died.In Tracy City, the Grundy County Herald reports that an employee for a vendor to a water treatment plant died during an accident involving chemicals.In