CALIFORNIA KILLED A MAN IN ETHIOPIA

It is strange ritual to see people gathering near a tunnel portal in Gibe II -Ethiopia and commemorate the death of hard working man who lost his life in the tunnel the day before. The death of the Italian man hurt everybody; it was very severe for his wife and parents. It was inadvertent, while pulling the California, transition plat form which is used for the two lanes of a locomotive to cross one another.
Once in 2 or 3 days the California must be pulled, as the tunnel excavation face is getting progressing, because the chainage is increasing, so the California must be pulled towards the TBM(Tunnel Boring Machine) ;  for the excavated material could be easily loaded to the locomotives ,then to spoil it out from the Tunnel.
That month the TBM was not working, since difficult ground collapsed at the cutters of the cutter head, then the TBM had to be cleaned, maintained and the ground to be stabilized with chemical foams. During this activity there was a solution of chemical streaming b/n the lanes of the two ways/rills .This chemical is cementaceous, it is the result of the reaction b/n water, chemical foam, tuffaceous volcanic material excavated from the ground, and cement .As days goes on the cement paste made a strong bond b/n the different steel plates that assembled the California and the rills of the loco.
After the difficult ground is treated well, running to excavation is the first step to the sub contractors, the reason is - it is a multi million Euro project: especally for the TBM one cannot imagine the amount of money wasted for every minute of stand up time.
As every day of his routine duty, this man begin to arrange every crew in the tunnel, he found everything is ready .Then the California must be pulled in wards. Normally it is pulled with two locomotives -one in front of the other. But the two engine pulling forces of the locos, was cracking aloud -like a scary movie sound tracks, pulling ,pulling ,pulling .The cement paste was so strong to release the California from the rills of the loco, this man was driving the rear loco, the chain was getting highly tensioned ,at last it was a must that the chain was broken and the upper half travelled forward with the same energy that the California was to be pulled. This chain broke the fore mirror of the loco at which this man is driving, and becomes the cause for the death of the man.
By tomorrow it was told that California killed a man in Ethiopia. My Sympathy and Condolences, to all the Labors lost their lives during the Gibe II tunnel construction.