New battle over unsafe waste sites By Melanie Payne, Sacramento Bee
Even the death of a worker hasn't been enough to shut down a local recycling center cited as an imminent danger and ordered closed by Sacramento County more than a year ago.
Sacramento resident Abraham Valdiva, 19, died May 8 after reaching into a conveyer at Florin Perkins Landfill to dislodge something and getting caught by a pulley, according to the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration.