Jay Elwell, 50
A worker died Wednesday in an accident at Intel's Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro.
Police said Jay Elwell, 50, died while doing maintenance on a vertical industrial storage carousel. Elwell was employed by Raymond Handling Concepts Corporation, which is a subcontractor for Intel, Hillsboro police said in a news release.
An early police investigation indicates the death isn't the result of a crime. The investigation has been turned over to the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration, police said.
A spokeswoman with Intel said in a statement the company is "deeply saddened" by the accident and is cooperating with the investigation.
According to his Facebook page, Elwell was an Aloha resident. Friends who posted to his page said he was known as a good friend and mentor who will "live on in the lives" of the people he's touched.
Police didn't release any additional information about the death Thursday morning.
Raymond Handling Concepts Corporation is a forklift dealer and materials handling company that offers "high-density storage, order-picking systems and associated services to companies engaged in warehousing and distribution as well as material handling of all kinds," according to its website. It works in the Northwest and has a branch office in Portland.
Intel's accident is the worst the local tech industry has seen in several years. Most recently in December, a hydrogen tank caught fire at WaferTech in Camas, with no injuries reported.
Tech industry accidents in the Silicon Forest
The death of a worker at Intel is the worst accident Silicon Forest has seen in years. Here are some of the most notable accident that have happened in the area:
Intel, early 1980s (Aloha): Company officials report a leak of solvents from a pipe leading to an underground tank. In the '90s, the company built pumps and treated water to prevent the solvents from seeping into groundwater under nearby homes.
Intel, Oct. 7, 1984 (Aloha): Seventeen workers are hospitalized after they reported breathing problems. Intel evacuates the factory again later in the week after chlorine fumes leaked from an exhaust system.
Intel, Nov. 11, 1986 (Aloha): A pyrophoric gas silane cylinder leaks through a valve and catches fire. Sprinklers confine the blaze.
Fujitsu Microelectronics, July 20, 1995 (Gresham): Eighteen people are taken to the hospital after an ammonia leak.
Intel, Nov. 18, 1996 (Hillsboro): An employee cleaning out an acid tank encounters a small puff of steam as the tank was heated. Emergency workers took him to the hospital for observation.
Maxim Integrated Products, June 7, 2001 (Beaverton): Seventeen people are taken to the hospital complaining of labored breathing and headaches after a leak of chlorine and hydrogen bromide. Employees are treated, released and returned to work the same night.
WaferTech, July 2, 2007 (Camas, Wash.): A tanker truck spills a gallon of sulfuric acid onto Lake Road in Camas. The acid, a byproduct of chip manufacturing, was to be sold to others. Firefighters and WaferTech clean up the spill.
Microchip Technology, June 21, 2010 (Gresham): A 55-gallon drum containing a solvent leaks into a containment trench. Gresham firefighters respond.
ON Semiconductor, July 20, 2010 (Gresham): Two workers are taken to the hospital for minor injuries after being exposed to ammonia in a production area. The facility is evacuated for three hours.
WaferTech, Dec. 17, 2016 (Camas, Wash.): A 3,000-gallon tank containing hydrogen catches fire at the WaferTech campus. There were no injuries.
-- The Oregonian/OregonLive
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HILLSBORO, Ore. – A contract worker doing maintenance on a piece of machinery at the Ronler Acres Intel site in Hillsboro was killed as a result of a malfunction Wednesday afternoon.
Hillsboro police said there was nothing criminal about the incident and the death of 50-year-old Jay Elwell appears to be an accident.
Elwell worked for Raymond Handling Concepts Corporation.
A spokesperson for Intel said “they are deeply saddened by today’s accident” and they are working with local authorities to investigate.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration will conduct an investigation.
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (WTVD) -- The man who was killed in a three-car wreck on northbound U.S. 421 Wednesday after a recliner fell off a trailer and onto the highway has been identified.
The wreck happened at about 10:30 a.m. at mile marker 246, west of Lewisville.
Troopers say a black truck was towing a trailer with a recliner on it when the recliner fell off the trailer and onto the highway.
The driver of a red truck saw the chair in the road and stopped. A van rear-ended the red truck, skidded off the road and overturned.
The driver of the van, identified as 53-year-old Robert Long, died as a result of the crash, according to Trooper Dewey Hamby.
After the van hit the truck, a woman driving a car also hit the red truck. The woman, identified as 35-year-old Jessica Houston, of Yadkinville, and her two children in her vehicle were taken to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
Houston suffered several broken bones and multiple fractures. The children were treated for minor injuries.
The driver of the pickup truck, Leonel Palacios, 57, and passenger, Wallace Compton, 47, were treated for neck and back injuries.
Troopers say the driver who lost the recliner returned to the scene to pick up the chair, but saw all the accidents happening and took off.
Authorities are currently searching for the person who owned the recliner and are asking the public to speak up if they know anything.
The person with the recliner could face a misdemeanor failure to secure load charge, among other charges.
Anyone with information on the wreck can call Highway Patrol at (336) 761-2441.
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FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. -- The man who was killed in a three-car wreck on northbound U.S. 421 Wednesday after a recliner fell off a trailer and onto the highway has been identified.
The wreck happened at about 10:30 a.m. at mile marker 246, west of Lewisville.
Troopers say a black truck was towing a trailer with a recliner on it when the recliner fell off the trailer and onto the highway.
The driver of a red truck saw the chair in the road and stopped. A van rear-ended the red truck, skidded off the road and overturned.
The driver of the van, identified as 53-year-old Robert Long, died as a result of the crash, according to Trooper Dewey Hamby.
After the van hit the truck, a woman driving a car also hit the red truck. The woman, identified as 35-year-old Jessica Houston, of Yadkinville, and her two children in her vehicle were taken to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
Houston suffered several broken bones and multiple fractures. The children were treated for minor injuries.
The driver of the pickup truck, Leonel Palacios, 57, and passenger, Wallace Compton, 47, were treated for neck and back injuries.
Troopers say the driver who lost the recliner returned to the scene to pick up the chair, but saw all the accidents happening and took off.
Authorities are currently searching for the person who owned the recliner and are asking the public to speak up if they know anything.
The person with the recliner could face a misdemeanor failure to secure load charge, among other charges.
Anyone with information on the wreck can call Highway Patrol at (336) 761-2441.
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FORSYTH COUNTY, N.C. -- A man was killed in a three-car wreck on northbound U.S. 421 Wednesday morning after a recliner fell off a trailer and onto the highway, according to Highway Patrol.
The wreck happened at about 10:30 a.m. at mile marker 246, west of Lewisville.
Troopers say a black truck was towing a trailer with a recliner on it when the recliner fell off the trailer and onto the highway.
The driver of a red truck saw the chair in the road and stopped. A van rear-ended the red truck, skidded off the road and overturned.
The driver of the van, identified only as a man from Winston-Salem, died as a result of the crash.
After the van hit the truck, a woman driving a car also hit the red truck. The woman and two children in her vehicle were taken to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
The driver of the red truck was also taken to Baptist.
Troopers say the driver who lost the recliner returned to the scene to pick up the chair, but saw all the accidents happening and took off.
Highway Patrol is now looking for the driver of the black truck that was towing the trailer.
"It all could have been prevented if the gentleman would have secured the recliner,” Trooper Dewey Hamby said. “If you're hauling something, whether it be on the back of a pick-up truck or on a trailer, it needs to be secured.”
Troopers say charges are pending against that driver.
The conditions of those taken to Baptist have not been released. Anyone with information on the wreck is asked to call Highway Patrol at (336) 761-2441
BASTROP, Texas (KTRK) -- Authorities in Bastrop County have issued a precautionary evacuation order after a crude oil line rupture.
The order extends a mile around the site of the rupture at 417 FM-20. The roadway is expected to remain closed into Friday as authorities work to contain the spill.
According to local emergency management officials, a maintenance contractor struck the pipeline just before 9 a.m. Thursday. An estimated 50,000 gallons of oil leaked out of the ruptured pipeline.
PHOTOS: Oil spill in Bastrop County
Magellan, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has shut off the pipeline and cleanup has begun at the site.
Nobody has been injured in connection with the incident.
A shelter for those impacted by the evacuation has opened at the River Valley Christian Fellowship at 1224 Highway 71. The shelter is not accepting pets.
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - A crude oil pipeline operated by Magellan Midstream Partners ruptured near Bastrop, Texas, on Thursday morning, spilling an estimated 1,200 barrels of oil and prompting an evacuation, the company said.
No injuries were reported, Magellan said in a statement.
Magellan's Longhorn Pipeline, which transports crude oil from Crane, Texas to Houston, ruptured about 4 miles (6 km)southwest of Bastrop. The company shut the pipeline and isolated the affected segment, it said.
People within a two-mile (3-km) radius of the spill were advised to remain indoors, the sheriff's department and local emergency officials said. Several families near the site of the pipeline break were temporarily evacuated, and part of a nearby road was closed, the company said.
The pipeline was ruptured when a contractor doing maintenance work hit a fitting, Magellan said. The line was in service at the time.
Emergency responders, company representatives, environmental agencies and clean-up crews were at the site, the company said.
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) said in an email that it had dispatched an inspector to the site.
The Longhorn Pipeline has the capacity to transport to transport 275,000 barrels of day of oil from West Texas to the Houston area.
Crude oil prices in West Texas slid following news of the event. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) at Midland, Texas, fell to about a $1.45 a barrel discount, off around 15 cents a barrel from Wednesday, traders said.
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More than 50,000 gallons crude oil spills in Bastrop County
KVUE 4:37 PM. CDT July 13, 2017
BASTROP COUNTY, Texas -- Authorities say an excavator cut a crude oil pipeline four miles southwest of Bastrop on Thursday morning, forcing nearby residents to evacuate or shelter in place.
County officials said the line was ruptured sometime after 8:30 a.m. July 13 near 417 FM 20, which is just south of Shiloh Road. In a statement, Magellan Midstream Partners, the company that owns the Longhorn pipeline, said a contractor was conducting maintenance on the system when it ruptured.
The company's preliminary estimate is that 1,200 barrels or 50,400 gallons spilled in the release. KVUE's Tina Shively reported the pipeline carries oil from Port Aransas to El Paso.
FM 20 has been closed in both directions, and authorities said residents within one mile of the rupture have been asked to evacuate. Those evacuated can go to the River Valley Christian Fellowship Church located along Texas 71.
The pipeline company said efforts are being made to minimize the environmental impact and public safety. No injuries have been reported, according to Magellan representatives.
Authorities estimated early Thursday afternoon that cleaning up the spill would take around eight hours.
Read the full statement from Magellan Midstream Partners below:
Shortly before 9 a.m. CST this morning, a contractor working on Magellan’s Longhorn pipeline system struck a fitting on the pipeline approximately 4 miles southwest of Bastrop, TX causing a release. The incident occurred when the contractor was conducting maintenance activities on the pipeline, which was in service at the time. The preliminary volume estimate of the release is 1,200 barrels. The pipeline was immediately and safely shut down and the line segment has been isolated.
Efforts are in progress to contain the crude oil release to minimize environmental impact and to ensure public safety. As a safety precaution, several families near the site have temporarily evacuated and a section of FM 20 has been closed. There are no injuries associated with the incident.
Local emergency responders, Magellan representatives, clean-up crews, and environmental crews are currently on site. All appropriate federal and state agencies have been notified. Clean-up activities will be underway this morning.
A DPS trooper has been suspended after he was arrested on a prostitution charge in Harris County.
Michael Dwayne Fillmore, 41, was taken into custody on July 11. DPS confirmed that Fillmore was not on duty at the time of his arrest.
According to the Harris County Sheriff's Office, Fillmore offered to pay an undercover officer $150 for sexual activities.
His bail was set at $500.
While the Harris County Sheriff's Office will handle the criminal investigation, DPS says the administrative case will be referred to the Office of Inspector General.
PENNSVILLE TWP., N.J. (WPVI) --
A roofing worker was killed after being shocked while installing a roof at a house in Pennsville Township, Salem County.
It happened around 1 p.m. Thursday on the 100 block of Highland Avenue.
Police say two workers were attempting to move a ladder when it came into contact with an electrical line.
Both were found lying on the ground when police arrived.
One of the workers, 54-year-old Jerome Dean of Penns Grove, was taken to Salem County Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
The second worker was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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1 electrocuted, 1 hurt when ladder hits power line, police say
Updated on July 13, 2017 at 2:36 PM Posted on July 13, 2017 at 1:59 PM
By Bill Gallo Jr.
bgallo@njadvancemedia.com
PENNSVILLE TWP., NJ-- One man was electrocuted and another hurt when a ladder they were handling came in contact with electric lines Thursday afternoon, police said.
The accident happened on Highland Avenue near Third Street, just before 1 p.m., according to Pennsville Chief of Police Allen J. Cummings.
Jerome B. Dean, 54, of Penns Grove and Travis Jackson, 29, of New Castle, Del., were working on a roofing job at the home, the chief said.
They were on the ground and it appears they were attempting to move a ladder when they hit the power lines and were shocked, officials said.
According to Cummings, first responders administered CPR to Dean at the scene and then took him to The Memorial Hospital of Salem County, Mannington Township.
Dean was pronounced dead at 1:47 p.m., the chief said.
Jackson suffered what were described by Cummings as non-life threatening injuries. He was taken to Christiana Hospital, Newark, Del.
Atlantic City Electric crews had been called to the scene.
