Harlem water treatment plant worker back on job

Brett Arensmeyer, a Harlem man who was injured after walking into a cloud of hot chlorine gas last week, is back at work and will be going to Billings to get treatment for lung damage.

Arensmeyer is back at work “on a limited basis,” according to Harlem Mayor Bill Taylor and Public Works director Richard Mohar.

“We had to keep him away from the water plant for a week,” Taylor added.

Arensmeyer lives in Harlem with his wife and three kids, where he works in the city's water treatment plant.

Last week, a malfunction with a heater switch caused the treatment plant's chlorine roo...