Confined-Space Hydrogen Sulfide Deaths in Clyde Township, St. Clair County, Michigan — Attorney911 Pursues the Employers, Property Owners and Chemical Suppliers Behind Well-Cleaning Fatalities Where Muriatic Acid Reacts With Sulfide Minerals in an Unventilated Space Beneath a Porch, Michael Kammer Jr. (21) and Daniel Hagle (20) Overcome by H2S Gas That Paralyzes the Sense of Smell Before Collapse at Concentrations OSHA Classifies as Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Preserve the Well Configuration, Acid Containers and MIOSHA Investigation File Before the Site Is Altered, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Michigan’s Wrongful-Death Act Preserves Third-Party Claims Beyond Workers’ Compensation Exclusivity, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
Clyde Township Confined Space Deaths: When a Routine Well Cleaning Becomes a Hydrogen Sulfide Killing Field You are reading this because two young men went to work on a Tuesday afternoon in Clyde Township and did not come home. One was twenty-one. One was twenty. They were cleaning a well beneath the porch of a recently sold home on Cribbins Road, using muriatic acid the way they had done it before — and the confined space beneath that porch turned a job they had performed into a gas chamber they never saw coming. We are the trial team at Attorney911, and what we want you to understand before anything else is this: what happened on Cribbins Road was not an accident in the way the word is usually used. It was a preventable workplace killing that occurred because someone sent two young men into a confined space without atmospheric monitoring, without respiratory protection, without an attendant standing outside, and without a rescue plan — every one of which has been required by federal and Michigan occupational safety law for decades. If you are a family member of one of these young men — if you are Jenny Kammer, who watched…