SEATTLE — A father of 12 lost his life last year while cleaning out a tanker truck filled with toxic chemicals, a job the state of Washington says he had never been trained to do. The company he drove for tops Washington state’s list of severe workplace safety violators.
‘Dad is dead’
“Dad is dead. Those two words, dad and dead do not belong in the same sentence. My world just shattered,” said Dmitriy Voloshin, whose father Viktor died on June 7, 2024, while working as a contracted truck driver for Two Rivers Terminal.
According to Two Rivers website, the company is a “diversified chemical formulator, distributor and importer.” The company provides deicer to airports, chemicals for water treatment and paper manufacturing.
Viktor Voloshin immigrated from Ukraine 30 years ago and took pride in providing for his large family. His children describe him as the hardest worker they knew, and said they never imagined he would lose his life on the job.
A Preventable Tragedy
According to a lawsuit filed by the Voloshin family, a dispatcher directed Viktor to clean out a semi-tanker that had been carrying toxic emulsified sulfur, a hazardous job he had never been trained to perform…