A 3-year-old boy has died after falling into an underground grease collection tank behind an upstate New York fast-food restaurant.
Rochester Police Investigator Frank Camp says the boy fell through a plastic cover into the grease trap behind a Tim Hortons restaurant Monday morning. Witnesses pulled the unidentified child out and administered CPR.
Camp says the child was pronounced dead at Strong Memorial Hospital. He called the incident an ``unspeakable tragedy.''
Restaurant grease traps are designed to keep used oil and grease out of sewer systems.
Alabama lawmakers passed legislation requiring more secure covers after a 3-year-old girl died in a 6-foot-deep (1.8-meter-deep) grease trap in Auburn, Alabama, in October 2017.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, a 5-year-old girl was rescued after falling into a grease trap in March 2018.