Workman crushed at Wallace work site

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.kvsun.com/articles/2008/07/18/news/update/doc4880adae5f663711514069.txt

Published on Friday, July 18, 2008 8:01 AM PDT
Cathy Perfect - Kern Valley Sun

Adan Fraga, 20, of Merced, died July 14 while working on a job site at Woodrow Wallace School in Lake Isabella. Fraga was crushed when the 10,000-pound portable building he was working on collapsed, investigators said. He was underneath the portable reportedly removing some bolts, when it collapsed and crushed him, Fraga was employed by Sure Set Company, a subcontractor of JTS, the Bakersfield-based general contractor providing the renovation work at the campus. “At 1:40 p.m., while working on a modular building, it collapsed crushing the decedent,” the report stated. Fraga was taken to Kern Valley Hospital where he later died.

“Cal-Osha was called immediately,” said KUSD Superintendent Mary Barlow, who was out of state at the time of the accident.

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“Cal-Osha and the Coroner came out Monday,” said Tina Foster, Chief Business Officer for the district. Cal-Osha, the agency investigating the industrial death, came back again on Tuesday to complete its investigation. “They will write their report, which will take several weeks,” Foster said.

“Our condolences go out to the family,” said Tom Moore, KUSD Board of Trustees president. “This is tragic.” He added that the site of the accident is secure and that no students were on campus at the time. Work on the renovation project will continue. Fraga will be buried in Mexico.

[midnight]

1. I hope that when the investigation into this young man's death

is done, it will not be found out that short cuts were taken.