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Siemens, Oregon State Officials Investigate Fatal Wind Turbine Collapse
August 30, 2007
Investigators from Siemens Power Generation and the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division have started to examine the wreckage from a wind turbine tower that collapsed in Eastern Oregon. The tower fell as two workers were performing a scheduled inspection. Chadd Mitchell, 35, a Siemens employee, was killed when he was working at the top of the tower and it fell. Bill Trossen, a contract worker who was midway up the inside of the tower, was hospitalized for a broken thumb.
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