SYLMAR : Business Owner Sentenced for Employee’s Death
The owner of a Sylmar iron works shop was ordered to perform 400 hours of community service for violating workplace safety laws in the death of an employee who was decapitated when a tire exploded, the Los Angeles city attorney’s office said Friday.
Juvenal Mena, 53, of Pacoima pleaded no contest to violating two state safety laws that call for an employer to have a safety training program and for a tire to be removed from a rim before repairs are made, City Atty. James Hahn said in statement.
Los Angeles Municipal Court Commissioner John Rafferty on Wednesday also sentenced Mena to three years’ probation.
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