The Region - News from Aug. 11, 1987
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Certified Tank Manufacturing Inc. of Wilmington was fined $17,000 after pleading no contest to violating a state Labor Code section, resulting in the death of a welder working inside a tanker truck. Municipal Judge Maral Kirakosian imposed the fine, placed the firm on three years probation and ordered it to obtain a safety-entry certificate from a laboratory affiliated with the National Fire Protection Assn. before any welding is done inside one of its tanks. Jose M. Castillo, 28, of Bell Gardens, was killed in April, 1986, by an explosion of solvent fumes inside a tanker where he was working with a torch replacing two bulkheads.
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