MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama building is continuing its campaign because new safety rules because cafe grease traps along the nation.
Corrie Andrews' 3-year-old daughter, Sadie Grace, died at October 2017 at an Auburn ice cream shop, The Montgomery Advertiser reported. She fell along the elastic covering of an subway grease capture at the establishment and drowned.
This month's death of a 3-year-old boy who fell into a restaurant's grease capture at Rochester, New York, is a painful reminder of the need because safety regulations, Andrews said.
Andrews cried the moment she heard, knowing the suffering and lifetime of grieving the New York mother will now face. She too believes such deaths are preventable.
"What makes the mama tolerate at me holiday out is it's the right same commerce that happened to my daughter," Andrews said. "After what we tried to accomplish, hence that the interval of the nation used to no dine to progress along this tragedy, there's cottage another mom who is experiencing shock, gut-wrenching heartache, and a nightmare that she is going to dine to alive with the interval of her life."
The Andrews building fought because post legislation at Alabama requiring grease capture lids to exist constructed of sturdy materials and secured by locking mechanisms.
Now, they expect those rules expanded to other parts of the nation.
Though many commercial establishments dine smaller, above-ground grease traps, restaurants usually use larger, subway receptacles to piece fat from normal sewage. The traps can department hundreds to thousands of gallons worth of grease waste.
"Twenty-one months and one appointment later, another infant died needlessly from a danger that is hence easily fixed," Andrews said. "plastic lids to no exist allowed, period. They dine endangered the lives of many along the country. The sad divide is it gets attention when a tragedy happens. when a life has been lost, it gets attention."
On the post level, Andrews was successful at getting the Sadie Grace Andrews action because Alabama.
Alabama businesses can now exist fined if they fail to encounter the requirements, which embrace using grease capture covers made of issue noise enough to oppose a person walking above it.
She's continuing to contribute because although protections at lay elsewhere at the U.S.
"It's absolutely ridiculous and insane to me, with total the media coverage that Sadie's passing incurred, that there are cottage elastic lips above grease traps," Andrews said. "We need to assure that this class of freak accident and tragedy used to never happen again."
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Information from: Montgomery Advertiser, http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com
