Alberto Herrera-Garcia, 54, sustained fatal personal injuries in a San Diego on-the-job accident, the morning of December 24, 2009, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Herrera-Garcia was apparently unloading 20-foot long wooden beams from a forklift, when the load shifted off the forklift and fell on him, at the industrial site on Marconi Drive, the San Diego County Medical Examiner's report states. The blow knocked Herrera-Garcia backward and he hit his head and suffered serious head trauma. He died shortly after the accident. Herrera-Garcia was also the driver of the truck, which was carrying the lumber. Investigators are looking into what caused the load to shift and fall on the victim. Read the rest »
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San Diego Construction Site Accident Injures Two
Two men sustained personal injuries after they were pinned between two vehicles at a construction site in downtown San Diego. According to a news report in the San Diego Union-Tribune, the accident occurred the afternoon of December 8, 2009 at Market Street and 10th Avenue, where two men were sitting on the tailgate of a truck eating lunch. It was at that time that a car backed up and hit the vehicle parked in front of the truck. Read the rest »
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Worker Killed On-the-Job in San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium
Walt Daniels, 66, a member of the San Diego Chargers' game-day staff at Qualcomm Stadium, suffered fatal personal injuries after he fell 25 to 30 feet from the coaches' box on to the cement covered ground right before a Chargers game on October 19, 2009. According to a news report from the Associated Press, Daniels suffered a massive head injury after his fall. Paramedics performed CPR and transported Daniels to a San Diego hospital where he died early morning October 20.
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