SAN FRANCISCO - On March 24, Cal- and Fed-OSHA jointly announced that K & L Plating of Oakland had been cited for numerous willful and serious violations of safety orders and assessed $741,000 in proposed penalties. At the time of a fatal accident on September 25 that prompted the investigation, Cal-OSHA's confined spaces standard was not yet final, thus the joint inspection. $180,000 of the penalties were for eight violations (one willful and seven serious) of the federal confined spaces standard. All
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