CHICAGO — A fundraising page has gathered close to $21,000 for the family of Konrad Tucharski, a city worker who died Monday after a sewer trench collapsed around him in Sauganash.
Water Department employee Tucharski, 41, was replacing a sewer line in the 6000 block of North Sauganash Avenue early Monday afternoon when the 20-foot hole caved in, officials said.
He later was pronounced dead at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston.
The cause of the incident remains under investigation, officials said.
The GoFundMe page, which saw some 270 individual donors in less than two days, described Tucharsky as "an awesome guy, down to earth and always energetic."
Tucharski's visitation is from 3 to 9 p.m. Friday at Matz Funeral Home, 410 E. Rand Road in suburban Mount Prospect. A funeral Mass will be offered at 2 p.m. Saturday at St. Thomas of Villanova Church in Palatine.
Tucharski is survived by his mother, wife and two daughters.
