Virginia

I cannot cite my source because of who they are, but here are some further details. The room the man was entering for whatever reason is a long-term fruit storage room where fruit is held in a 98% nitrogen atmosphere. I am not clear on the exact details of what they are supposed to do when entering these rooms but apparently there is a procedure that was not followed and he was dead immediately on cracking a wrong entrance. His co-worker could not pull him out because of the nitrogen leak and because he was wedged in such a way that he could not grab him by the legs and he himself was rapidly losing consciousness. Extraction with a fork lift was also unsuccessful. It took EMS a good little while to get him out and his O2 level was less than 15%; in other words he was effectively dead. The EMS workers who were working on him were themselves running O2 sats in the 80s because of that. And OSHA got all kinds of runaround when they started asking questions about work orders, procedures, who sent the guys out there, what they were doing, etc. This is going to get REALLY ugly before it is all done. And I'm sure Bowman will try to buy off the family....