Two workers who were found dead inside a pump tank serving a hotel in Kennebunkport, Maine, this week died from inhaling toxic hydrogen sulfide gas and sewage, according to autopsies released Thursday.
The workers for Stevens Electric and Pumper Service, Monmouth, Maine, were Winfield Studley, 58, and Richard Kemp, 70. Both men had many years of experience working in confined-space situations, and the circumstances of their deaths remain unclear. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating.
According to media accounts, the sewer pump tank at the Lodge at Turbots Creek had been pumped by another contractor and then the men
