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Trench Collapse

Water Authority Worker, 38, Dies In Wyomissing Trench Collapse Water Authority Worker, 38, Dies In Wyomissing Trench Collapse
Water Authority Worker, 38, Dies In Wyomissing Trench Collapse Support is surging for the wife of a water authority worker killed in a Berks County trench collapse earlier this week. Western Berks Water Authority employee Cody Gipprich, 38, of Shillington, was doing routine work in a constructed pit with a colleague on Cambridge Avenue near Meadow Lane around 8:30 a.m. in Wyomissing on Wednesday, WFMZ reports. At some point, a pipe or valve failed, causing high-pressure water to shoot out on Gipprich, the outlet reports. Gipprich's coworkers and bystanders rushed to help him before crews pulled his body from the narrow pit, approximately 8 feet deep,…