Michael Gryga, in a tragic accident, died on Wednesday after being struck by a pipe while pressure testing it as part of the Wacker Drive reconstruction project. Another Peoples Gas worker was also injured in the accident.
The employees were using compressed air to test the pressure in a 20-inch gas main beneath the area of Wacker and Jackson when the pipe burst, the fire department said.
“They were pumping air through the system when something went wrong,” Fire Media Affairs spokesman Quention Curtis said. “It blew the pipe apart and it hit them.”
