OIL CITY – The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s (PennDOT) statewide Traveling Workers Memorial is on display at its Venango County Maintenance Office through August 7, 2025.

The memorial features 93 white stands each adorned with a hard hat and safety vest along with a date and the name of a PennDOT employee who died while serving the residents of Pennsylvania. The display also includes an educational panel with additional information on the memorial and the names of the employees included.

The Traveling Workers Memorial is maintained by employees at PennDOT’s Bradford County facility and is used at sites throughout the Commonwealth to pay tribute to all the employees who have lost their lives in the line of duty since the department’s founding in 1970.

The public is invited to visit the memorial at 1460 Pittsburgh Road (Route 8), Franklin but asked to avoid parking along the shoulder of the roadway.

There is limited parking available in the front lot of the building during business hours. Please do not block the gates leading into the workspace behind the main building. The memorial may also be visited during daylight hours and on the weekend while the office is closed.

Along with Greenlee and Baughman, eight other employees from the northwest region, which includes Crawford, Erie, Forest, Mercer, Venango, and Warren, are represented in the memorial. Those employees include the following:

— George Peace, Crawford County, January 9, 1972.

— Norman Matthews, Warren County, January 13, 1972.

— Charles Passauer, Forest County, February 16, 1973.

— Paul Anderson, Venango County, October 22, 1981.

— Charlie Burin, Erie County, May 21, 1984.

— Nyal Orr, Crawford County, May 29, 1984.

— Dennis Miller, Mercer County, October 14, 1997.

— Earle Chandler, Erie County, August 1, 2006.

— Robert Greenlee, Venango County, June 18, 2025.

— Seth Baughman, Venango County, June 18, 2025.

For more information about PennDOT’s efforts to keep motorists and employees safe in work zones, visit PennDOT’s website.

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