Family Pulls Together, Enhances Productivity to Keep Business Afloat After Serious Injury

Faced with a serious injury to its owner and leader, the team at Favreau Septic jumped in and kept the successful Massachusetts pumping business humming along.

Feb 06, 2014 | by Ken Wysocky |

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Family Pulls Together, Enhances Productivity to Keep Business Afloat After Serious Injury — Larry Favreau and daughter Holly Favreau-Shaw are shown along the driveway of the Favreau farm with the company’s septic pumper in the background, a 1996 Kenworth built out by Progress Vac Truck with a 4,500-gallon aluminum tank and Challenger pump from National Vacuum Equipment Inc. (Photos by Ed Collier)

As one might expect from a guy who runs a cattle operation and a septic pumping business side by side, Larry Favreau’s work ethic is as solid as the boulders that dot his pride and joy, the aptly named Rocky Acres Farm LLC in Sterling, Mass.But when the owner of L.R. Favreau Septic Service LLC fell and broke his neck one evening in May 2013, the incident revealed two truths: even proud, tough farmer/pumpers are vulnerable to accidents, and his family always has his back.The latter wasn’t surprising to Larry, 68, a Vietnam War veteran who established the pumping business

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