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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) — The Trump Administration is suing a section leader successful transportation with a fatal clang past twelvemonth that killed 7 workplace workers.
The clang happened connected Feb. 23 of 2024. The California Highway Patrol said a van carrying 8 workers was traveling West connected Avenue 7 successful Madera connected the mode to a enactment site.
A pick-up motortruck swerved into them from the other broadside of the road.
The operator of the motortruck and 7 of the 8 workers died astatine the scene.
CHP says six of the workers were not wearing spot belts.
YourCentralValley.com obtained a transcript of the suit that claims that Selma-based Lion Farms failed to "Assure indispensable protections for migrant and seasonal cultivation workers by enforcing, among different things, conveyance information standards, registration and licensing requirements."
A section migration attorney, George Rios weighed successful connected the tragedy.
"The biggest crushed wherefore this is getting truthful overmuch attraction is due to the fact that of the mode that everything occurred and the information that it was truthful shocking and tragic," Rios said.
Rios says that ag workers merit harmless proscription to and from the enactment site.
"They're paying for you to supply them with harmless transportation," Rios said.
The suit besides alleges the conveyance utilized to transport the workers did not person the minimum liability security coverage.
"The authorities is going to effort to hold, astatine the precise slightest successful this instance, the leader accountable for failing to comply with national instrumentality specifically and providing harmless proscription for their employees," Rios said.
The suit besides alleges imaginable fiscal irregularities.
"It goes beyond conscionable providing harmless proscription and really involves issues of perchance failing to wage their employees the wages, just wages that they had earned," Rios said.
Rios says helium has seen instances successful the past wherever workers were acrophobic to talk up successful perchance hazardous situations.
"And if they take to combat for what is their rights, they volition beryllium replaced," Rios said.
All of the workers killed were from Mexico.
