Worker killed when trash truck falls on him

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_crush13.434b0f2.html

10:00 PM PST on Friday, December 12, 2008

By DAN LEE
The Press-Enterprise

An employee of a Perris-based trash hauling company was killed when the vehicle he was working on fell on him, a CAL/OSHA spokesman said Friday.

CAL/OSHA is investigating the Wednesday death of the employee, whom the Riverside County coroner's office identified as Rancho Cucamonga resident Efre Aceituno-Deleon, 41.

Aceituno-Deleon was declared dead at Menifee Valley Medical Center at 7 p.m., about 40 minutes after the accident involving a trash truck at CR&R Waste and Recycling Services in Perris, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department said.

A state Division of Occupational Safety and Health investigation will include interviewing witnesses and other employees and checking with the company to see if they were properly trained in safety, CAL/OSHA spokesman Dean Fryer said by phone.

Aceituno-Deleon was working on the rear axle of the vehicle when it fell on him, Fryer said.

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