The worker crushed to death by a forklift at an Oakland recycling company was identified Friday as 34-year-old Eduardo Martinez Barajas.

Barajas, who lived in Oakland, was watching another employee use a forklift to raise a second forklift at Super Link Plastic Inc. at 888 92nd Ave. about 9:45 a.m. Thursday when the machine doing the lifting toppled, pinning or crushing his head, said Cal/OSHA spokesman Greg Figgins.