VALENCIA : Truck Goes Off Road; Oil Worker Killed
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An oil worker drove off a private road west of Valencia on Tuesday and plunged down a steep hillside to his death, authorities said.
Adolph Gaeta of Ventura had been contracted by Exxon to work on oil wells and pumps on company property near the Magic Mountain amusement park, California Highway Patrol officials said.
Gaeta, 46, was driving a pickup truck on a paved road toward the pumps at 1:15 p.m. when he plunged about 300 feet down the hill, Officer David Pokorny said. Gaeta, a foreman for Ojai-based C. D. Lyon Inc., was thrown from the vehicle and crushed when it rolled on top of him. Gaeta was not wearing a seat belt.
Rescue workers rushed Gaeta to Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival, Pokorny said.
Officers did not know why the truck veered off the road. They found no witnesses to the accident, Pokorny said.
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