LOS ANGELES - Cal-OSHA's West Covina office has completed its investigation of the January 22 confined space accident in Compton and has issued citations with total proposed penalties of almost $23,000. A work crew was working in the basement of an old Sears store, in a 14-foot-deep baler pit, when one man was overcome by fumes and apparently died there. Two of his co-workers were seriously injured when they tried to drag him out. (NEWS p. 00-6597.)Cal-OSHA cited Lu Mar Industrial Metals Co. for a ge
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