Construction company fined $157,500 after deadly Scripps Ranch trench collapse

SAN DIEGO — A construction company has been issued $157,500 worth of fines over a predawn trench collapse that killed a 27-year-old laborer last summer at a work site in Scripps Ranch, state officials announced Thursday.

The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health issued the citations to Long Beach-based W.A. Rasic Construction for purported workplace- safety regulations that led to the death of Joel Olea Gomez of San Marcos.

A representative of the company did not immediately return a call seeking comment on the ruling, which can be appealed…

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