Safety Officer Charged With Second-Degree Murder

By: Cal-OSHA

BERKELEY - An explosion March 18, 1997, at Dick's Auto Wrecking in Fontana killed one employee and injured two others. It turned out that a live 105-millimeter shell was contained within several tons of scrap metal the firm had purchased from Fort Irwin, although Dick's had been assured that the load contained no explosives.In late November, Timothy Collister, the safety and quality control officer for Allied Technology Group, was arrested. The company is under contract with the Army to clear the

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