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Three workers die at Queens sewage plant

Three workers - including a father and son - were killed Monday afternoon when they were overcome by hydrogen sulfide fumes while trying to escape a deep, water-filled hole at a Queens waste transfer plant, authorities said.

The final moments of the victims' lives were spent thrashing around an 18-foot-deep hole filled with three feet of water and deadly levels of hydrogen sulfide, a by-product...

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