St. Louis-Area College Coffee Spill Costs Campus $200K
St. Louis, Mo., is perking up with jokes about the $200,000 cup of coffee. But officials at a college and its insurance company aren’t laughing.
St. Louis Community College at Forest Park must foot the bill after a coffee maker rigged to a faucet and left on in a photo lab led to a ruptured water line in July. About 10,000 gallons of water spilled down four floors, damaging ceilings, walls, computers and files.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the college’s Board of Trustees will be asked to approve cleanup costs this week, including a $143,494 contract with a disaster-recovery company.
School officials hope the campus will be out only the $25,000 insurance deductible plus another $54,000 for miscellaneous expenses, including overtime costs.
Information from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, www.stltoday.com
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