A 59-year-old line picker was killed by his son who ran over him with a payloader at Omni Recycling of Babylon Inc. in West Babylon, a transfer station for waste and debris en route to landfills. His death is considered an accident.The man worked the overnight shift six days a week, where he hand-sorted pieces of metal and concrete from the giant piles of debris. It was a grueling job.
At the recycling facility, rigs, trucks, and payloaders, a type of excavation truck, drive around a handful of yellow corrugated-metal buildings. During the night shifts, visibility is limited, said another employee.
The transfer station business is a dangerous environment. There is a lot of mechanized machinery. It's loud and dirty; it's a tough place to work.
Omni Recycling has been fined twice by OSHA after two other workers died in separate accidents in the past decade but the company is currently in compliance.
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