Contact: Jeff Adamson, communications 509-667-2815 (Wenatchee)
WENATCHEE – Travelers in Wenatchee, Ephrata and Okanogan will see new displays starting Monday, April 8 to raise awareness of National Work Zone Awareness Week April 8-12. These outdoor displays include an orange Work Zone Safety banner and four barrels to honor the four employees from our region who died on the job.
See the displays near the North Central Region Office on Euclid Ave. in Wenatchee, Area 2 Maintenance Office on State Route 28 in Ephrata and Area 3 Maintenance Office on US 97 in Okanogan.
Employees in work zones are husbands, fathers, brothers, wives, mothers, sisters, children and friends – and they all deserve to go home safe at the end of their day. Far too many of them have had close calls, serious injuries and deaths in work zones. Crewmembers have had to literally run for their lives or jump over guardrails due to speeding, inattentive, distracted or impaired drivers.
The four barrels honor those from this area who have died on the job:
Capitol Campus displays
In Olympia, also starting April 8, 60 orange traffic barrels and a pickup truck crushed in a recent work zone incident will be on display all week on the Capital Campus. Each barrel represents one of the 60 WSDOT workers killed on the job around the state since 1950.
Help keep those in and traveling through a work zone safe by remembering to: