COMPANY FINED IN FREEWAY DEATH.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. A construction firm was fined $14,000 for safety violations after falling steel and lumber killed a motorist on the San Diego Freeway The San Diego Freeway (Interstate 405, and the part of Interstate 5 south of the El Toro Y[1]) is one of the principal north-south highways in Southern California, and the major beltway of I-5 running through Southern California. . Anjule Quitania, 36, died Dec. 5 when his minivan hit building materials Building materials used in the construction industry to create . These categories of materials and products are used by and construction project managers to specify the materials and methods used for . and skidded down an embankment at the interchange of the San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. and Long Beach freeways. State safety officials said Monday that a freeway contractor used only a single clamp to secure a 7-ton steel beam before hoisting it by crane. The beam slipped, knocking another beam and wooden scaffolding into the driver's path. ``The improper use of this hoisting method would have required absolute balance at all times,'' said Cal-OSHA spokesman Troy Swauger. ``Once the slippage Slippage The difference between estimated transaction costs and the amount actually paid. Notes: Slippage is usually attributed to a change in the spread. See also: Spread, Transaction Costs Slippage began, it was a domino effect.'' The construction site was shut down for three days. The contractor, Ball, Ball & Brosamer of Danville, Calif., was fined $7,000 for improper rigging and $7,000 for improperly lifting the beam. The amount is the maximum allowed under state safety regulations. |
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