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Autopsy on farm worker Tuesday

Todays is : Friday, 21 November 2008

Written by George Gale
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
(Farm Worker killed Friday identified)….County Coroners office says the man killed while picking Corn Friday was 41-year-old Juan Henry Zamora of Mexicali. An Autopsy is being conducted to determine the exact cause of Death. The Coroners office says they were called at around 9:30 Friday morning. When they arrived at McKim Road near Holtville, they found Zamora. Deputy Coroner Henry Proo said the initial investigation determined the Mexicali man had not only been run over once by the tractor pulling a trailer, but he was run over twice. Proo said Zamora apparently tried to climb onto the trailer, but slipped and fell under the wheels. When the crew yelled for the tractor driver to stop. The driver stopped the tractor, and put it into reverse, and consequently ran over the downed man a second time. Zamora was pronounced dead at the scene.