In September 2023, pumper Cary Zeschke received what appeared to be a routine call from a customer asking if he sold septic tank lids. But when the guy went on to explain why he needed it, Zeschke was horrified. The man’s wife and three-year-old had walked over to the neighbor’s house and the child stepped on top of a lid and it broke. At first Zeschke was under the impression the child fell into the tank seven feet in the ground but eventually learned the lid had wedged itself in enough to hold the child.
Every pumper knows each year children
