Spate of Worker Deaths This Week

By: Cal-OSHA Reporter - The leading occupational safety and health publication in California.

OAKLAND -- At least six workers died in California this week, three in a single incident involving farmworkers traveling between harvesting jobs in Fresno County.That incident occurred in the early morning hours of Sept. 9 as a crew harvesting tomatoes apparently was moving to another field, according to Department of Industrial Relations spokesperson Dean Fryer. Five workers were in a truck with an extended cab that missed a turn on a country road and plunged into an irrigation ditch, landing ups

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