No Jury Trial—K&L Owner Pleads to Manslaughter

SAN FRANCISCO - The long-awaited criminal trial of Robert McSkimming, owner of K&L Plating in Oakland, CA, ended before it began in a plea of no contest on January 26. "He pleaded as charged. He admitted to all three counts," Deputy District Attorney Larry Blazer told COR.The manslaughter charges against McSkimming and the plant foreman stemmed from the death in 1993 of Ramon Ramero, an employee who crawled into a large tank containing a residue of toxic acids and cyanide to rescue a co-worker who col