Davis Bacon: photographs from the edge 28 - BROCCOLINI HARVESTERS

David Bacon is an amazing photojournalist His craft focuses on immigrant workers. Here is some of his latest:

photographs from the edge 28 - BROCCOLINI HARVESTERS

photographs from the edge 28 - BROCCOLINI HARVESTERS
Photographs by David Bacon

"Driving on the frontage road beside Highway 101, just south of Salinas, I was looking for the memorial to the braceros killed in 1963.  Fifty eight workers had been riding in the back of a flatbed truck, where their labor contractor had bolted down two parallel benches for them to sit on as they rode to and from the fields.  The truck's driver, Francisco Espinosa, couldn't see a train coming at 67 miles an hour, as he inched slowly across a railroad track on Thomas Ranch Road in Chualar.  When the lead engine hit the truck, almost all were thrown into the air, many crushed beneath the steel wheels.  Thirty two died."