City, Operator Dropped From Treatment Plant Fatality Suit

摘要

The city of Gatlinburg, Term., and the company that runs its wastewater treatment plant have been dismissed from lawsuits stemming from the deaths of two workers when a wall collapsed. However, charges are proceeding against the plant's contractor and engineer. A jury trial is scheduled for June 2015. John Eslinger, 53, lead operator, and Donald Storey, 44, operator, were killed in April 2011, when the 40-ft equalization-tank wall collapsed onto the flow-control building where they were working, dumping over 2 million gallons of raw sewage into the Little Pigeon River.