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Title: Worker killed as bin collapses
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Haering, Michael
Date Created and/or Issued: 1983
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: A 20-foot-high bin packed with sand and gravel for concrete collapsed on three workers Friday in Vernon, killing one man and trapping another for ore than an hour in the twisted debris. Killed in the accident at Livingston-Graham Inc. was Al Oberlies, 39, of Fontana. Oberlies and two other Livingston-Graham employees were apparently welding the tower when it suddenly gave way. Photograph dated February 11, 1983.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;34 x 24 cm. on sheet 36 x 29 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094840
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b005_f4_i9-1
CARL0005063273
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33968
Subject: Construction workers--California--Vernon
Accidents--California--Vernon
Accident victims--California--Vernon
Towers--California--Vernon
Silos--California--Vernon
Vernon (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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