well that article was exactly as awful as the headline sounds.
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I work as a pool maintenance technician in Texas. There are laws that are pretty strict for public pools for anti-entrapment drains
From what I've been able to read and from what I've read from interviews, the pipe was like 6" wide and didn't have a cover. I believe it was a wall return that she was sucked into. But it was plumbed backwards and so it was pulling water instead of pushing
I work with multiple river pumps and they're frequently the biggest pumps in the pump room. So the water they return is at a pretty high flow rate and none of them have a cover on the pressure side. The ones I work with have multiple openings of an inch or two
But the main reason this happened was someone fucked up with plumbing the pump and used the discharge side for the pressure side. No idea how someone wouldn't notice
I think I read that they didn't disclose that they were renovating and adding a river. No idea why it wasn't looked at either. So, so, so many levels of failure lead to this
Dunno if it changes anything, but user224 posted this link elsewhere in this discussion, and it says the pipe was 30cm (almost a foot) in diameter -- I'm no expert, but the photos in this and OP's article seem to show an opening about that size to me. I only mention it because that seemed uncommonly large to me.
That link is cancer
Corporations are psychopaths.
So vacuum pipes are not required to have grates installed on them? If not for peoples safety than to at least prevent trash clogs
While there are significant regulations around intake pipes, including grates and/or having multiple intakes so that no single one can be completely obstructed to create a suction scenario where someone can be trapped, this particular pipe was found to be plumbed on the wrong side of the pump. It was sucking in water when it was supposed to be ejecting water.
This is serious for the hotel chain, franchisee, installer/contractor, and inspector. This had to fail so many checks to have occurred. It wasn't a chance occurrence for someone to be sucked in and seriously harmed or killed with the way this was plumbed; it was a matter of time when someone was going to be seriously injured or killed.
Truly a tragedy, and I cannot for the life of me imagine the pain that family is going through right now.
This is a "someone should go to jail" level of criminal negligence.
It's manslaughter. You kill someone with a machine, even if you weren't trying to, it's right up there next to murder.
When I managed a pool, I remember the Virginia Graeme Baker act being something I was told about pretty early on; it was a prevalent enough of a thing that sometimes trying to start up my spa's motor wouldn't provide a clear enough suction, and the motor would shut off for safety. A properly managed pool should never have had this risk.
Sorry, what the fuck. This is a complete failure on engineering controls and safety. A safety analysis on an industrial plant would find something like this to be a major safety vulnerability that needs several redundant safeguards.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Can you imagine being the inspector who missed this?
Reading a few articles. It sounds like this was inspected and passed before people got into the pool.
Few few things in life get industrial plant level of analysis.
We should really change that. Things would be so much safer if we applied this level of scrutiny for anything considering the public.
We would have a lot less then.
Guts, by Chuck Palahniuk.
You're welcome
Omg, is the last story they mention in that article based on a story I read on reddit once, where [CW Body Horror]
!where someone sits on a pool drain and has their intestines sucked out of their rectum?!<
I remember someone saying it happened to a young girl that ended up dying from it, and it's still one of the most horrific things I've ever heard. I don't even care if they plagiarized it from that book, I carry that anxiety with me to every pool I go to.
Her name was Abigail Taylor. She was 6.
Truly a heart-wrenching story. https://abbeyshope.org/abbeys-story/
Ah yes, the short story to make people feint.
https://screenrant.com/chuck-palahniuk-guts-story-73-people-fainted-reason-explained/
So a good manual for fencers and other swordsmen?
Touché
That was a good (and gross) read haha. Didn’t realize it was the Fight Club author until after.