SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The deaths of three workers at a San Leandro company in the span of eight years - first exposed by KTVU – took center stage at a California hearing, where state lawmakers questioned government workplace agency leaders and vowed to make changes to increase employee safety.

"In my own district, there is a scrap metal company called Alco Iron and Metal," Assemblywoman Liz Ortega (D-San Leandro) said. "Three workers have died there in the last [eight] years."

3 workers die in 8 years

A KTVU investigation in April marked the deaths of Luis Guerrero this year, Ray Alfaro in 2022 and Alberto Anaya in 2017, all of whom were employees at Alco Iron and Metal. They were crushed by a forklift, crushed by a bundle of copper wire, and a collapsed screw conveyer.

The investiga

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