Contractor has history of safety violations
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A California-based contractor that employed five workers killed at a hydroelectric plant in Colorado was cited and fined in the past for safety violations involved in two deaths and several injuries, a California safety official said Wednesday.
RPI Coating of Santa Fe Springs was one of three contractors fined for safety violations that contributed to the 2002 death of employee Darryl Clemons during retrofitting work on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, said Kate McGuire, spokeswoman for the California Department of Industrial Relations, Cal/OSHA.
The company was also cited and fined when a passing motorist was killed during 2001 work on the bridge, McGuire said.
In Georgetown, Colo., five of the company’s contract maintenance workers were killed in a tunnel when a machine used to coat the inside of a pipe caught fire.
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