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Riverdale Oil Rig Removal Worker Crushed to Death — Your Family’s Legal Rights After a Fresno County Oilfield Fatality If you are reading this page, someone you love did not come home from the oilfield. A 29-year-old man from Arvin went to work on a December morning in Riverdale, dismantling an oil rig that had reached the end of its life, and a piece of steel large enough to kill swung down and crushed him. The Fresno County Sheriff’s deputies and EMS arrived at the field near Mt. Whitney and Polk Avenues, and he was already gone. Cal/OSHA was called. And now you are sitting with a phone full of calls from an employer’s insurance company and a grief you cannot yet see the bottom of. We are going to tell you what nobody has told you yet. Workers’ compensation is not the only door open to your family. The employer’s insurance adjuster knows this and is counting on you not knowing it. California law gives the family of a worker killed on the job two parallel paths — a workers’ compensation death benefit that pays regardless of fault, and a third-party civil claim against every other entity whose negligence…