PE.com - 3/22/13, Peter Surowski
Jose Morales was working in the yard of his home near Perris when something he never expected happened. The earth collapsed underneath him.“I thought, oh man, this is it,” Morales said of the incident, which happened on Wednesday, March 20.He quickly spread his arms and legs and clung to his weed whacker, which caught at an angle stopping it from slipping into the 6-foot-deep hole that appeared under him.
A septic tank is designed to withstand a lot of weight on top of it – the weight of a man would not have collapsed it. If somebody had put something big on it – a truck, for example – it could have weakened it enough to make it break under a man’s weight, said Larry Moreau, the president of Trailer Products Inc., the Hemet-based business that manufactured the Moraleses’ tank.
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