Worker Killed at Oil Rig in Riverdale is Identified

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) — The Fresno County Coroner’s Office has released the identity of the man who was killed while working on an oil rig near Riverdale as 29-year-old Alfredo Oronia from Arvin, CA.

Deputies were called around 10:45 a.m. on Monday about an injured man in a field near Mt. Whitney and Polk avenues near Riverdale.

When they arrived, they found Oronia, who had died after being crushed by a large piece of steel that had swung down from the rig…

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