California mushroom farms cited for workplace safety violations after January fatal shootings

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California has cited two Northern California mushroom farms for health and safety violations and proposed more than US$165,000 in potential fines five months after a farmworker killed seven people in back-to-back shootings on the farms in Half Moon Bay.

Chunli Zhao, who had worked at the farms, is charged with seven counts of murder and one count of attempted murder in the Jan. 23 shootings that stunned the small coastal community about 30 miles south of San Francisco. He has pleaded not guilty.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's office previously said some of the farmworkers told him they made US$9 an hour and lived in shipping containers. The state minimum wage is US$15.50. The shooting at California Terra Garden was at least the second time an employee tried to kill a coworker on the property, records show.

 

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