At least some victims in dairy accident worked for robotics company

New details are emerging about some of the six victims who died in a dairy near Keenesburg last month, as an online fundraiser for their funeral expenses is close to reaching its $70,000 goal.

On Aug. 20 at about 6:30 pm, six men working at Prospect Valley Dairy died in what the Weld County Coroner’s office is calling a confinement accident. The workers may have been exposed to a large quantity of hydrogen sulfide, a gas released from, among other reactions, the decomposition of the solid waste from cows.

The Weld County Coroner’s Office identified the victims as:…

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