On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at approximately 3:00 p.m. a Humboldt County Deputy Coroner responded to the vicinity of Rock Ranch Rd, Weitchpec, to investigate a contract worker with PG&E who fell from the tree he was working in. The decedent, Kenneth Arlen Buck Williams, 26, of Hoopa, fell approximately 55 feet to the ground. An autopsy was performed and his cause of death was determined to be from blunt force trauma to the head. This event is currently under investigation by OSHA.
If you have any information in regards to this event, please contact OSHA at (707) 445-6611.
Mike Downey
Sheriff