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SATURDAY OCTOBER 10, 2009
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Vol. 21, No. 243
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Collecting a ton of food Steamboat Christian Center launches drive for LIFT-UP Food Bank Page 3
SPORTS
Sailors win, 34-0 Page 19
Worker killed at base area Brady Meier, of Hayden, died Friday after construction site accident
Corrections South Routt High School senior Bethany Leu is the senior class head girl. Annie Hagg is the senior class secretary/treasurer. The story “Soroco puts spirit on display” on page 3 of Wednesday’s Steamboat Today gave incorrect titles. Audrey Enever’s name was misspelled in a quote on page 15 of Friday’s Steamboat Today. The Steamboat Springs Orchestra’s chamber music fundraiser is 6 p.m. Thursday at Harwigs/L’Apogee. The date was listed incorrectly in Friday’s Explore Steamboat calendar.
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A 29-year-old Hayden man died late Friday morning after a construction site accident at the base of Mount Werner. Brady Meier was pronounced dead at 11:45 a.m. at Yampa Valley Medical Center, Routt County Coroner Rob Ryg said. The cause of his death has not been determined, but Ryg and investigating officers said they think Meier was struck with
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Police investigate the scene of a construction accident Friday morning next to Slopeside Grill in Steamboat Springs. Hayden resident Brady Meier died in the accident.
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Meier
a fitting from a pressurized water line. Ryg said an autopsy would be performed in Jefferson County to determine the exact cause of
death. Emergency responders were paged to the Steamboat Ski Area base at about 10 a.m. Friday for a report of a man who had been electrocuted. The accident occurred at
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Mostly cloudy. High of 46.
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the site of the Urban Renewal Authority’s public improvement project on the north side of the base area next to Slopeside Grill. Duckels Construction has been contracted to replace a sewer line and prepare for the installation of a Burgess Creek diversion structure. Duckels Construction owner Fred Duckels arrived at the site after the accident and helped police with the investigation. Duckels said Meier was trying to turn on a water valve inside a utility vault when a compres-
sion cap on another water line blew off and hit him. Duckels said the fitting recently had been tested. “You can take care of the safety, but that was kind of a freak thing,” Duckels said. Duckels said Meier had worked for him for about two years and recently had built a house in Hayden. His wife, Jenny, survives him. Steamboat Springs Police Sgt. Dale Coyner said there’s See Death, page 6
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