The owner and manager of a San Francisco building supply company in San Francisco have been charged with involuntary manslaughter and labor code violations in connection with the November 2016 death of a forklift driver, the San Francisco Examiner reports. The Examiner continues:
Alfred Lee, 65, the owner of Good View Roofing and Building Supply, and Alan Chan, 44, have been charged with one count of involuntary manslaughter and three violations of the labor code each, the newspaper said. They were charged along with the company in connection with the Nov. 21, 2016 death of a man identified by prosecutors as 60-year-old Hua Quing Ruan. Ruan, a South San Francisco resident, was previously identified by the medical examiner as Ruan Quiang, with a listed age of 58.
Ruan was killed when a forklift he was driving overturned on a ramp, pinning him.
CBS News reported in April 2017 that Good View was fined more than $62,000 for multiple safety violations related to the accident. California's OSHA department cited six violations, including failure to ensure the proper use of a forklift seatbelt, failure to ensure that the forklift operator was certified to operate it safely, and failure to ensure that industrial ramps have at least an 8-inch curb installed along the open edges.
