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Orange man killed when ladder breaks

The 51-year-old man was replacing light bulbs at the Budget Inn in Whittier, police say.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

By DENISSE SALAZAR

The Orange County Register

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MEMORIAL: Mike Willis, 51, from Orange, died Wednesday when

a hydraulic ladder he was using to change fluorescent light bulbs

in a Whittier motel sign collapsed, authorities said

A 51-year-old man from Orange died Wednesday when a hydraulic ladder he was using to change fluorescent light bulbs in a Whittier motel sign collapsed, authorities said.

Mike Willis was replacing the light bulbs at the Budget Inn at 14030 Whittier Blvd. shortly after 11 a.m. when the 55-foot hydraulic ladder he was using began to accelerate downward, said officer Jason Zuhlke of the Whittier Police Department.

It appears that when Willis was coming down and the ladder was retracting, a cable snapped and the portion of the ladder he was on began to accelerate downward, Zuhlke said.

"Willis fell from a height of about 40 feet and landed head first on the concrete," Zuhlke said.

Willis was pronounced dead at a hospital.

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Willis worked for A&M Signs and Lighting, a family-owned business. His brother, who worked with him, was there when the incident occurred.

The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating the death.

The death was the second industrial accident in the past 10 days involving an Orange County man.

Randy Ribota, a 49-year-old from Garden Grove, will be buried today, a week after he was crushed to death in an industrial accident at an Anaheim work site.

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Investigators believe that Ribota was working near a metal bin filled with rocks and rubble when it toppled over and pinned him. A fellow worker found him face down and unconscious; he was dead by the time paramedics arrived.

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