WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
FRIDAY
TODAY
SATURDAY
A wintry mix
changing to rain
Clouds and some
rain
36° 34°
43° 36°
SUNDAY
Clouds, breaks of
sun; a shower
Partly sunny and
cold
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
39° 25°
32° 24°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
42° 38°
36° 33°
PENDLETON
TEMPERATURE
LOW
27°
39°
63° (1980)
21°
25°
6° (1924)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
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0.05"
0.98"
1.39"
16.24"
13.37"
12.86"
Corvallis
48/45
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
29°
39°
63° (1955)
New
7:35 a.m.
4:18 p.m.
1:18 p.m.
2:04 a.m.
First
Jan 16
Jan 24
Caldwell
34/31
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
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Medford
49/37
Trace
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9.29"
9.13"
9.75"
Klamath Falls
44/26
(in mph)
Today
Friday
Boardman
Pendleton
ENE 3-6
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UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
SUN AND MOON
Jan 8
Bend
45/40
Burns
36/27
PRECIPITATION
Jan 1
John Day
41/39
Ontario
33/31
24°
27°
6° (1983)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
Albany
48/46
Eugene
48/44
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
32° 22°
Spokane
Wenatchee
29/29
25/25
Tacoma
Moses
46/41
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 29/27
34/33
48/44
45/40
35/29
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
45/43
36/35 Lewiston
33/31
Astoria
37/36
49/44
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
46/44
Pendleton 39/35
The Dalles 36/33
36/34
39/37
La Grande
Salem
38/36
49/45
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
38° 23°
Seattle
47/43
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
48° 27°
Today
MONDAY
Abundant
sunshine, but chilly
45° 27°
Thursday, December 28, 2017
Coastal Oregon: Cloudy today; a little rain;
however, dry in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Cloudy today.
A wintry mix changing to rain across the
north.
Western Washington: Rain today. Cloudy
tonight with a little rain. Heavy rain
tomorrow.
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with 1-3 inches; a wintry mix south, chang-
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additional 3-6 inches. Snow level near
3,500 feet.
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Frankie Crispen Jr. had a
lot to look forward to this past
November. He was set to take
the rigorous exam that could
elevate him to journeyman
electrician after four years as
an apprentice. Thanksgiving
came the day after the state
test, then it would be time to
get serious about Christmas
shopping.
On his final break the night
of Nov. 17 at the Columbia
Forest Products mill in
Klamath Falls, Crispen texted
his fiancée Ashley Albers, as
he always did, teasing out the
answers to his 11-year-old,
soon-to-be
stepdaughter’s
math homework.
About an hour later, he
responded to a call for an
electrician over the intercom
at the mill that sits on the
banks of the Klamath River.
He was never seen alive
again.
The 28-year-old’s death
in the final hours of a swing
shift made him Oregon’s 68th
workplace fatality of 2017,
according to preliminary
figures from the state’s Occu-
pational Safety and Health
Administration. At least six
more people have died on
the job since Crispen fell into
a vat of scalding liquid that
November night.
More than half the esti-
mated 74 workplace fatalities
in 2017 thus far occurred from
natural causes, according to
state estimates. Employees
also died in car crashes and
workplace accidents, data
show.
Fewer fatalities
State safety leaders say
they don’t place much signif-
icance on single-year tallies
because workplace fatalities
have dropped significantly
over time. In the private
sector, the rate has plunged
from 11.1 deaths or injuries for
“People die in this state on the job and
they die unnecessarily from things we
know how to prevent.”
— Michael Wood, the state’s administrator
for workplace health and safety programs
every 100 full-time workers
in 1988 to roughly 3.7 in
2015, the most recent data
available. Though construc-
tion and logging remain the
most deadly sectors, safety
measures designed to reduce
falls have resulted in fewer
accidents.
The number of compen-
sable deaths, those eligible for
workers’ compensation insur-
ance benefits, has declined as
well. The annual figure has
hovered near 30 each of the
past five years in Oregon,
and claims accepted in 2017
to date appear headed on the
same trajectory.
Michael Wood, the state’s
administrator for workplace
health and safety programs,
said the stories behind dozens
of deaths go untold each year.
Despite significant advance-
ments in workplace safety
in the past two decades and
a lower fatality rate despite
a significantly larger work-
force, he worries that death
rates are merely leveling off
“at best.”
“People die in this state on
the job,” Wood said, “and they
die unnecessarily from things
we know how to prevent.”
Under investigation
Crispen’s grisly death
shocked friends, family and
colleagues in Klamath Falls,
a community of 21,500 just
north of the Oregon-California
border. There’s no criminal
inquiry, but the incident is
under investigation by the
state’s Occupational Safety
and Health Administration.
Though all workplace fatal-
ities must be reported to the
state within eight hours, the
agency does not investigate all
deaths. The agency declined
to comment on Crispin’s case,
other than to say it would
release a report on its findings
within six months.
The mill, one of two
Columbia Forest Prod-
ucts locations in Oregon,
specializes in hardwood
plywood manufacturing. In
a statement, the company
said it was “deeply saddened
by the untimely death” and
fully cooperating with the
investigation.
The Greensboro, North
Carolina-based company has
more than 2,000 employees in
the U.S. and Canada and bills
itself as the largest manufac-
turer of hardwood plywood
and hardwood veneer prod-
ucts in North America. The
Klamath Falls plant opened
in 1999.
Compounding
the
heartache of a life cut short,
Crispen’s family is struggling
with the lack of information.
His mother, Kay Moyette,
said she’s been waiting to
hear more about the investi-
gation, but other than a brief
story in the Klamath Falls
newspaper, there’s been no
media coverage or significant
updates from authorities.
The death
Crispen
usually
got
home from work at 10:45
p.m., some 15 minutes after
clocking out.
By 10:43 p.m. on Nov. 17,
according to 911 calls, it was
clear something was horribly
wrong.
The
dispatcher
had
summoned
emergency
workers to “a possible
confined space rescue” on
the back side of the 18-acre
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mill on U.S. 97.
Fire crews were the first to
arrive, followed by Klamath
County sheriff’s deputies
at 11:06 p.m. By that time,
Sheriff Chris Kaber said in an
email, Crispen “had not been
seen for a couple of hours.”
Albers started calling and
texting when Crispen didn’t
arrive home at his normal
time, but her calls went
straight to voicemail. She
wondered whether he might
have picked up an extra shift,
something he did on occasion
to make extra cash.
By 3 a.m. she was
“terrified” and drove to the
mill. She spotted their Ford
Mustang in the parking lot.
Crispen’s phone charger and
other personal items were still
inside.
She later learned that
Crispen had fallen through
the lid and into an in-ground
vat filled with a corrosive
liquid heated to 170 degrees,
which is used to soften logs
before they are processed into
plywood. The vat sits a few
feet above ground.
According to the state
medical examiner, Crispen
died from “thermal injuries
and caustic burns.”
Dr. Karen Gunson said he
would have “died immedi-
ately.”
Emergency
personnel
couldn’t safely retrieve his
body until the next morning.
They had to wait for the liquid
to cool before draining it.
Failing to find him, Albers,
meanwhile, returned home
and resumed calling Crispen’s
cell, dialing over and over as
her daughter slept in a room
nearby.
“I was just sitting on the
couch waiting for him to walk
through that door, and it never
happened,” she said.
Just after 6 a.m., she heard
a knock on the door. Crispen’s
four dogs barked. She swung
it open to find two officers.
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