NEWHALL : Caltrans Office Dedicated to Worker Killed on Job
A new California Department of Transportation office was dedicated Friday in Newhall--the first one to be dedicated to the memory of a Caltrans worker killed on the job.
Caltrans bought the one-story, brick-facade building facing Interstate 5 last year, just after surveyor Callie Joel Buser Jr. was killed in Acton by a driver under the influence of drugs.
Norma Buser, his widow, told more than 50 Caltrans workers at the dedication of the survey office that she would continue pushing for a special “safety designation” for road workers that would give the survivors of employees killed on the job enhanced benefits, such as those received by families of Highway Patrol officers.
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