Colorado dairy worker’s death highlights a known danger: liquid manure pits

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Juan Panzo Temoxtle’s family says he went to work every day with a goal in mind: to build his family a new home.

A father of three young children, Temoxtle left his family behind in Mexico and headed to the United States to work. He had nearly saved up enough money to return home, his family says, when he met an unexpected and unthinkable end: he drowned in a manure pit while training on a new job at a LaSalle dairy.

Temoxtle’s death in March became a rallying cry for advocates who lobbied successfully for a farmworkers’ bill of rights in Colorado.

But investigators are still working to find out what caused the accident that claimed the life of Juan Panzo Temoxtle.

It is the kind of accident federal occupational safety investigators have encountered several times before on dairies across the country.

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