In October 2017, Garrett Paiz died after the water tanker he was driving crashed in Napa County. None of those employers had workers' compensation insurance.
In fact, each year since Reagan's death, workers operating heavy equipment for private employers who contract with Cal Fire to help California battle large wildfires have been killed on the job. Reagan's death led to investigations by Cal Fire, state workplace regulators and the Contractors State License Board, who determined that Czirban, the owner of Madera County-based Czirban Concrete Construction, did not have a valid workers' compensation insurance policy, a benefit he was required to have if he employed others to operate his equipment. Instead, it is centered on the employment status and protections for workers who take on some of the most dangerous jobs on California's fire lines every year.
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Reagan, 35, of Fresno County, died after the bulldozer he was operating toppled down an embankment several days after the Monterey County wildfire began in July 2016, leaving behind a wife and two children.īut this week's trial is not about the fire or what caused Reagan's death. Ian Czirban employed Robert Reagan, a contract bulldozer operator killed in the Soberanes Fire. The man who hired the only person to die fighting a fire that scorched more than 130,000 acres near Big Sur in 2016 is going on trial this week.
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