Man ID'd in Deadly Highway 101 Construction Mishap

By Bay City News Service:

The Sonoma County coroner’s office has identified a construction worker who died when he was crushed by an 8,000-pound rolling metal pipe in Petaluma Wednesday morning as 28-year-old Jared Overfield of Novato.

Overfield was an employee of the San Rafael-based Maggiora & Ghilotti Inc. engineering contractor firm.

• UPDATED: Construction Worker Was Crushed to Death by Rolling Pipe

He was working on a construction site in the area of Kastania Road and Petaluma Boulevard South west of U.S. Highway 101 where workers were moving a 40-foot pipe weighing approximately 8,000 pounds with a forklift, Sonoma County sheriff’s Sgt. Cecile Focha said.

Overfield was in front of the forklift when the pipe rolled and crushed him underneath, Focha said.

The Petaluma Fire Department pronounced him dead at 7 a.m. Focha said.

The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating the circumstances surrounding the worksite death and whether there were violations of industry regulations, policy or procedure, Focha said.

A spokesman for Maggiora & Ghilotti said he had no comment on the death.

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