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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco officials say they've begun instituting a new set of safety rules for firms that bid on city transportation infrastructure projects, reforms prompted by the death of a construction worker inside a rail tunnel last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beginning this month, contractors must submit more detailed safety plans and hire dedicated safety managers to qualify for construction contracts with the city's Municipal Transportation Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Subsequent to the accident, the SFMTA has amended its contractor selection and bidding procedures,\" agency spokesman Paul Rose said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The changes come amid the release of an autopsy report on the death of the worker, 51-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/appealdemocrat/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=189945715\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patrick Ricketts\u003c/a>, disclosing new details about the fatal incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $40 million Twin Peaks Tunnel Improvement Project, which aims to upgrade service on light-rail lines between Muni's Castro and West Portal stations, was tied to a series of severe \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11691978/muni-says-contractors-mistakes-on-tunnel-project-causing-new-delays-in-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transit delays\u003c/a>. Problems associated with the job led to two City Hall hearings that shined a light on SFMTA's \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/BLA_Muni_Operator_Staffing_120518.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">operator shortages\u003c/a> and weaknesses in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11699521/after-workers-death-on-muni-project-s-f-grapples-with-how-to-vet-contractor-safety-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contractor hiring\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Ricketts was killed, news reports disclosed workplace regulators had issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686976/muni-chief-downplays-safety-concerns-in-sf-tunnel-project-after-worker-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dozens of safety violations\u003c/a> in the last decade against one of the companies involved in the tunnel project, Oakland-based Shimmick Construction. That included a $50,000 fine in 2016 in connection with the death of a worker operating a forklift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite that penalty, Shimmick had told city officials when it bid for the tunnel project that it had not been cited for any serious or willful safety violations by California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health, Cal/OSHA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the accident, Cal/OSHA and San Francisco police launched investigations into the Aug. 10 \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1339097.015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incident\u003c/a> that killed Ricketts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then police have closed their case, according to SFPD spokesman Sgt. Michael Andraychak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There does not appear to be any criminal element to the case,\" Andraychak said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But until now few details have emerged about the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Autopsy Findings\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco medical examiner's report says the episode began with one of Ricketts' fellow workers driving a rail crane -- a piece of construction equipment used to transport and lift heavy gear or construction materials -- into the West Portal tunnel\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the crane inched along, pushing two flatbed rail cars in front of it, its elevated arm struck and dislodged a steel beam that had been placed as temporary support inside the tunnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The falling beam struck Ricketts, a signal technician from the Colusa County town of Williams. The report says he suffered a wide range of traumatic injuries, including shattered ribs, a collapsed lung and a severed spinal cord. Ricketts also sustained injuries to his back, head and neck. The medical examiner's office classified the cause of death as blunt force injuries of the chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Craig Peters, a partner at Altair Law who specializes in heavy equipment accidents, reviewed the autopsy findings for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You have a lot of people in a very small space, which means you got to have a super-strong protocol for safety and clearly they didn't,\" Peters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you are knocking over a massive beam, you have clearly failed to implement basic safety precautions,\" Peters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The medical examiner's report says that paramedics found Ricketts lying down and unconscious on the gravel — but breathing and with a pulse — on the West Portal side of the tunnel. While they were tending to him, he went into traumatic cardiac arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency room staff were able to re-establish a pulse, the report says. But while doctors were performing a CT scan on Ricketts, \"the subject arrested again and could not be revived.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also notes that Ricketts' hardhat was not found at the scene of the accident and one was not located at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peters says while hardhats are important for construction protections, wearing one in this incident would not have saved Ricketts life. But he notes the absence of one might shed light on the company's safety culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They might be indications of the laxity in safety precautions that were being taken generally in this project,\" Peters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for Shimmick declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New Construction Bid Rules\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA began implementing its new contractor requirements on Jan. 10, when bids for the first phase of a $90 million project to improve its L-Taraval line began, according to Rose, the agency spokesman. The agency plans to replace worn rails, overhead wires, water and sewer lines along Taraval Street in a job expected to last two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before those new rules were put in place, companies on all Muni infrastructure projects were required to have safety representatives on hand. Those workers can be members of the construction team who also have safety responsibilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, more of the agency's contractors will need to have dedicated supervisors or managers who are certified safety professionals on hand. Their sole responsibility is safety, and they're required to be on job sites full time and available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency's contractors must also now provide more documents about their safety history and Cal/OSHA citations, and they need to submit more detailed safety and work plans, Rose said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peters described the SFMTA's contractor changes as good — but not strong enough. He emphasized that the agency should essentially make the firms pay to keep their workers safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Require the employer to provide minimum short-term and long-term disability policies for all workers, along with life insurance policies for workers,\" Peters said. \"That's an added cost to the contractor, but they are now motivated by their bottom line to improve their safety.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFMTA does not currently mandate those benefits, according to Rose. But agency contractors have to provide workers' compensation benefits, which include short-term and permanent disability benefits as well as death benefits for their employees, he said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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That included a $50,000 fine in 2016 in connection with the death of a worker operating a forklift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite that penalty, Shimmick had told city officials when it bid for the tunnel project that it had not been cited for any serious or willful safety violations by California's Division of Occupational Safety and Health, Cal/OSHA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the accident, Cal/OSHA and San Francisco police launched investigations into the Aug. 10 \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.inspection_detail?id=1339097.015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incident\u003c/a> that killed Ricketts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then police have closed their case, according to SFPD spokesman Sgt. 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"content": "\u003cp>The California Public Utilities Commission has hit San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency with a $120,000 fine for \"systemic\" violations of state and local rules dictating how train operators handle and store cellphones while they're on duty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5688563/CPUC-Citation-S-F-Muni-Cellphone-Use.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a citation\u003c/a> disclosed Thursday, the CPUC said it had documented 16 cases between October 2017 and last July in which Muni employees had violated the regulations. None of the infractions involved operators actually using phones while they drove.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFMTA says it accepts the CPUC's findings and has paid the fine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/word_pdf/GENERAL_ORDER/146010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2011 CPUC regulation\u003c/a> requires transit agencies statewide to impose their own rules barring train operators from using personal electronic devices while on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC adopted the measure after \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2008/sep/19/local/me-traincrash19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a series of incidents\u003c/a> -- including a June 2008 Muni Metro mishap at Fourth and King streets that injured 16 people and a September 2008 Los Angeles Metrolink crash that killed 25 -- in which train operators were found to have been on their phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the 16 episodes that CPUC inspectors documented involved on-duty operators and other employees who failed to turn their cellphones off or stow them as directed by Muni's own \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5689240/SFMTA-Zero-Tolerance-PED-Rules.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"zero tolerance\" rules\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those rules require train operators to switch off their devices and \"secure them in a location out of sight and off person ... and away from the employee\" -- usually in a special locker aboard the transit vehicle. Penalties for violating the rule range from counseling in cases where operators have failed to properly store phones to suspension or firing for use of phones while operating a vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC citation says inspectors documented case after case in which streetcar drivers, light-rail operators and cable-car crew members carried switched-on phones in their pockets or put them in backpacks shoved under their seats while they worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one incident, a CPUC inspector observed a Muni streetcar operator use his cellphone as he got off his vehicle near Fisherman’s Wharf, then put the phone in his pocket as he helped passengers board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A few moments later, the inspector showed the train operator his identification, announced who he was, and asked to see the train operator’s cellphone,\" the CPUC citation says. \"The train operator stated that he did not have one. When confronted with the inspector’s statement that he had seen the cellphone, the train operator said it was in his bag. ... When asked to produce the phone from his bag, the train operator refused to do so even when told his supervisor would be notified.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another case, the CPUC said a train operator who had failed to turn off his phone or stow it before beginning a run on the Muni Metro refused to produce the device when an inspector asked him to. The operator insisted that a Muni supervisor had instructed employees \"not to produce their cellphones when confronted by CPUC inspectors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other incidents involved workers -- a train operator and a private security guard working for Muni -- talking on their phones as they walked across tracks in rail yards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC citation added that when its Safety Enforcement Division approached a senior Muni official last June to ask about how many cellphone violations the transit agency had recorded so far in 2018, the official \"replied that no violations\" had been discovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5689239/SFMTA-Reiskin-Letter-to-CPUC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a letter to the CPUC\u003c/a> last week, Municipal Transportation Agency chief Ed Reiskin said Muni accepts the inspectors' findings and is \"moving decisively\" to curb cellphone violations. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the 16 episodes that CPUC inspectors documented involved on-duty operators and other employees who failed to turn their cellphones off or stow them as directed by Muni's own \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5689240/SFMTA-Zero-Tolerance-PED-Rules.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\"zero tolerance\" rules\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those rules require train operators to switch off their devices and \"secure them in a location out of sight and off person ... and away from the employee\" -- usually in a special locker aboard the transit vehicle. Penalties for violating the rule range from counseling in cases where operators have failed to properly store phones to suspension or firing for use of phones while operating a vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC citation says inspectors documented case after case in which streetcar drivers, light-rail operators and cable-car crew members carried switched-on phones in their pockets or put them in backpacks shoved under their seats while they worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one incident, a CPUC inspector observed a Muni streetcar operator use his cellphone as he got off his vehicle near Fisherman’s Wharf, then put the phone in his pocket as he helped passengers board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A few moments later, the inspector showed the train operator his identification, announced who he was, and asked to see the train operator’s cellphone,\" the CPUC citation says. \"The train operator stated that he did not have one. When confronted with the inspector’s statement that he had seen the cellphone, the train operator said it was in his bag. ... When asked to produce the phone from his bag, the train operator refused to do so even when told his supervisor would be notified.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another case, the CPUC said a train operator who had failed to turn off his phone or stow it before beginning a run on the Muni Metro refused to produce the device when an inspector asked him to. The operator insisted that a Muni supervisor had instructed employees \"not to produce their cellphones when confronted by CPUC inspectors.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other incidents involved workers -- a train operator and a private security guard working for Muni -- talking on their phones as they walked across tracks in rail yards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CPUC citation added that when its Safety Enforcement Division approached a senior Muni official last June to ask about how many cellphone violations the transit agency had recorded so far in 2018, the official \"replied that no violations\" had been discovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5689239/SFMTA-Reiskin-Letter-to-CPUC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a letter to the CPUC\u003c/a> last week, Municipal Transportation Agency chief Ed Reiskin said Muni accepts the inspectors' findings and is \"moving decisively\" to curb cellphone violations. Among the steps the agency is taking, Reiskin said, are \"targeted blitzes\" to remind operators about the rules on personal electronic devices, new signage on vehicles and in rail facilities, and a new test for operators on the requirements of state and local regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is an issue we take very seriously,\" SFMTA spokesman Paul Rose said in an emailed statement Thursday. \"Even though no one was using their cell phone while driving, we took a number of steps in response to these violations. ... Managers worked hard to reach out to operators to get feedback and share the importance about following these rules.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the aftermath of an August incident in which a worker died working in a Muni tunnel, San Francisco agencies say they do not yet have a comprehensive system in place to warn each other about contractors who have had safety problems while working on city construction projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, city officials say they’ve begun building a database in which departments can enter information about contractors — including any documented safety concerns — that other agencies will be able to access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue was raised last week in a Board of Supervisors committee meeting prompted by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686567/worker-dies-after-twin-peaks-tunnel-project-construction-accident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Aug. 10 death\u003c/a> of Patrick Ricketts, 51, a worker with Shimmick Construction killed by a falling steel beam in Muni’s Twin Peaks Tunnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the hearing of the board’s Government Audit and Oversight Committee, Supervisor Norman Yee asked John Thomas, a San Francisco Public Works engineer and deputy director for infrastructure, whether the department notifies other city agencies about contractors that have had safety issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this information used for future potential contracts?” Yee asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If, for instance, you see a pattern and it doesn’t really stop and they haven’t done any corrective actions, do you use that information to say ‘you know something, we can’t be giving this particular company a new contract?” Yee inquired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this point, no, it is not used as part of the selection process,” Thomas answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Supervisor Norman Yee called a hearing last week in response to questions that arose after a worker's death near West Portal Station.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-960x629.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-240x157.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-375x246.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-520x341.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Norman Yee called a hearing last week in response to questions that arose after a worker’s death near West Portal Station. \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When asked about Thomas’ remarks, Public Works spokeswoman Rachel Gordon said city departments have begun a pilot project using an internal website, completed last February, where they can store reviews of construction jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, records from eight projects have been entered in the site. City officials plan to add more in the coming months as the project continues to roll out, Gordon said in emailed responses to questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said documenting city officials’ concerns is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue is largely about making a fair decision that is supported by documentation of poor performance,” she said. “If a department doesn’t award a contract because of its concerns about the ability of the contractor to perform, it must backup that decision with documentation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon also pushed back against the idea that city agencies don’t have access to safety information about contractors that bid on city projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Departments may ask about safe work history on past work for the city,” Gordon said in an email. “The department may check references by asking its employees or those of other city departments,” Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee called last week’s hearing in response to questions that arose after Ricketts’ death near West Portal Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686976/muni-chief-downplays-safety-concerns-in-sf-tunnel-project-after-worker-death\">Muni Chief Downplays Safety Concerns in S.F. 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He urged all departments to ask contractors to list all workplace safety incidents they’re associated with, even those still under investigation or appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siew-Chin Yeong, SFMTA’s director of capital programs and construction, said that her agency wants to require contractors to submit annual summaries of work-related injuries when bidding on a project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Yee pointed out that on many city construction jobs, the project’s main contractor hires smaller companies to do large parts of the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do we control that?” Yee asked, looking for city rules on how the agencies track the safety records of subcontractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The general contractor is fully responsible for the safety site including the safety of the sub-contractor,” Yeong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the focus of the hearing and of previous news coverage has focused on weaknesses in vetting the safety records of contractors, it should be noted that city officials in recent years have been meeting to collaborate more efficiently on what they know about construction companies, emphasized Nicholas King, a process improvement analyst for Public Works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that you’ve heard from three departments today, and you guys are asking questions and the public’s here and the press is watching,” King said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to be clear that we’re all on the same page, and we’re all on the same team, and we’re all committed to safety.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In the case of the refurbished Twin Peaks Tunnel, the train is cleared to travel to the next station, Forest Hill, at a speed of 50 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley said that immediately after the tunnel reopened last month, the automatic train control system was not executing the “handshake” at West Portal. The system’s response is to slow the trains to a crawl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley said that the problem, which he described as intermittent but disruptive, involved improperly reinstalled components for the train control system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That could mean the components were relocated in the wrong place, they were buried under track or ballast that was put back down, that kind of thing,” Haley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that SFMTA employees have found that by reducing the automatically set speeds for a 1,000-foot section of eastbound track at West Portal, trains are able to proceed through the area without stopping. Once past the affected section of track, trains are able to resume their normal speed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley said the second issue was more serious and grew out of previously scheduled construction last Friday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shimmick crews brought heavy equipment into the tunnel through the West Portal entrance, he said, and in the process damaged the train control system’s trackside components.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had all sorts of heavy equipment vehicles going in, and they damaged the equipment alongside the trackway,” Haley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the components damaged was the system that counts vehicle axles. Haley said the result is that the system “stops the train and says, ‘Wait a minute, you’re not going any further until we figure out who you are.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The damage was extensive enough that it has prevented Muni from issuing remote commands to clear the problem from its operations control center. Instead, two Muni workers have been stationed at West Portal, Haley said, and are trying to manually correct problems with the system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley added that the damage has caused a ripple effect throughout the Muni Metro system, as it forces downtown-bound trains to slow to 25 mph for the entire length of the Twin Peaks Tunnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Muni crews have replaced much of the damaged equipment at trackside and are working with the train control system’s manufacturer on a fix that could be in place later Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley said the SFMTA has discussed the problems with Shimmick Construction, but declined to characterize the conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a representative for Shimmick said the company is not to blame for the train control problems and denied its equipment caused any damage last weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have reached out to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency to offer our continued post-construction support,” Chapin Fay, a Shimmick spokesperson, said in an emailed statement. “The automatic train control system work on the project was not under our purview and we are not aware of any damage that was done this weekend by our equipment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supervisor that represents the area of the West Portal station expressed outrage on Thursday after learning about the subway problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These delays are unacceptable,” said Supervisor Norman Yee in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I urge the SFMTA to work with the contractors to resolve these issues as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new West Portal problems come just weeks after Mayor London Breed put SFMTA chief Ed Reiskin on notice she expects quick action to resolve the transit agency’s service issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked how much the West Portal issues might cost, Haley said, “Well, I can tell you the biggest concern I have for the cost is the public inconvenience and the impact on service. … I’m less concerned about the dollar value than the loss of confidence that our riders have.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Then I said, ‘Are you going to do something about it?’ And he attacked me.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lotz gave a slightly \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/on-air/as-seen-on/Rider-Almost-Pushed-Off-Muni-Train-in-SF_Bay-Area-492246481.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">different version of events\u003c/a> in an interview with NBC Bay Area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In yet \u003ca href=\"https://mic.com/articles/191065/muni-mark-muni-matt-video-of-white-men-san-francisco-attack#.gdloKROhx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a third interview\u003c/a> — with independent journalist \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AnnaMSterling\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Sterling\u003c/a>, who tweeted video of the Thursday evening incident she had obtained from a witness — Lotz said that San Francisco police ordered him to the ground and handcuffed him when they encountered him after the incident. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sterling wrote that when Lotz asked why he was in handcuffs and not the man who had put him in a headlock and attempted to throw him from the Muni vehicle, police told him that reports claimed that Lotz was the aggressor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/getting-around/safety/safety-and-good-conduct\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Muni rules\u003c/a> — like those on virtually every California transit system — prohibit playing sound equipment without earphones. 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The department said its investigation is ongoing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two short videos of the episode, which occurred about 8:45 p.m. Thursday on an N-Judah light-rail vehicle near 34th Avenue and Judah Street in the city’s Outer Sunset neighborhood, were tweeted late Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/AnnaMSterling/status/1035391641861799936\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the videos depicts an adult white male who has another person in a headlock on one of the vehicle’s seats. Other passengers approach, exclaiming, “He’s a kid!” and “Over music?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A second video shows the first adult and a second, also apparently white, trying repeatedly to force a younger male off the vehicle through an open side door. The younger man, who appears to be a person of color, struggles to stay on the car and screams “Stop!” several times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The videos were posted by Anna Sterling, an independent journalist and part-time producer for KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said on Twitter that she had obtained the video from a witness who got off the Muni car at the same stop as the young man to offer aid. “He is OK,” Sterling reported early Friday via tweet. “He was shaken up after the incident for sure though. We are following up this story and will share soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It isn’t apparent from the videos what led to the incident. Police said they planned to review Muni surveillance footage, “which may show what occurred prior to the encounter seen in the cellphone videos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muni said on Twitter that the N-Judah operator was aware of the incident as it was occurring and notified police. The agency said it had given the SFPD surveillance video from the car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sfmta_muni/status/1035555365084061696\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Police Department said in a statement that about 8:45 p.m. Thursday, it “received several calls regarding an assault that occurred on a Muni light rail vehicle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Officers arrived on scene and made contact with two adult male subjects,” the statement said. “During our investigation, both subjects admitted to being involved in a mutual physical altercation, but neither party chose to press charges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officer Grace Gatpandan, a department spokeswoman, said later Friday that police had also located and interviewed the apparent victim, who declined to press charges. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an open and active investigation into what happened,” Gatpandan said, including “looking at the circumstances” that led to the incident. She added that if police find probable cause a crime was committed, those involved could still face arrest. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Katy Tang, who represents the neighborhood where the incident occurred, called the video “very disturbing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Violence should never be the answer to resolving issues,” she said. “I hope that riders will seek assistance from Muni operators if there are ever any issues on Muni because they are more well-equipped to handle these problems and call for further back-up if needed.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFPD asked anyone with information about the incident to call the department’s anonymous tip line at (415) 575-4444.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated Friday to include Friday afternoon comment from the San Francisco Police Department and Supervisor Katy Tang.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated Saturday to include details from interviews given by Dexter Lotz, the man fellow riders tried to throw off an N-Judah train car. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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He was taken to a hospital, where he died that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, KQED reported that state workplace regulators had investigated Ricketts’ employer, Oakland-based Shimmick Construction, 13 times in the last five years and issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/pls/imis/establishment.search?p_logger=1&establishment=Shimmick&State=CA&officetype=all&Office=all&p_case=all&p_violations_exist=all&startmonth=08&startday=13&startyear=2013&endmonth=08&endday=13&endyear=2018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">23 citations\u003c/a> to the firm. 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We never rush construction work,” Reiskin said. “We have a lot of folks working there and it’s a very kind of confined environment, but we go above and beyond, and always try to do so, in terms of making construction sites safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happened is horribly tragic and very sad and our thoughts are with the family,” Reiskin said. “We want everyone working on any of our job sites to go home safely everyday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reiskin said Muni officials have conducted an “exhaustive investigation” and taken “a number of precautions” to prevent another fatality on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The job site is safe. It’s safer now,” he said. Reiskin and other SFMTA officials have emphasized that Ricketts’ death is the only injury associated with the Twin Peaks tunnel project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11687029\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11687029\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/westportal.jpg\" alt=\"The West Portal side of SFMTA's Twin Peaks Tunnel Project. \" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/westportal.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/westportal-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/westportal-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/westportal-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/08/westportal-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The West Portal side of SFMTA’s Twin Peaks Tunnel Project. \u003ccite>(Ted Goldberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But at least one leading expert on workplace safety issues said that Friday’s death combined with Shimmick Construction’s safety record should lead to more scrutiny by state regulators and city officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It raises concerns for me,” said Linda Delp, director of the UCLA Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program. “There’s a recurring pattern here of problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA is investigating Shimmick in connection with Friday’s fatality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative for the company did not respond to questions about the firm’s safety record but did offer a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are deeply saddened by this terrible tragedy and we are working with all relevant agencies to investigate the matter,” John Gallagher, a Shimmick spokesman, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shimmick has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-documents/2018/01/2-6-18_item_14_contract_award_-_twin_peaks_tunnel.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$40 million contract\u003c/a> with the city on the tunnel project between Muni’s Castro and West Portal Stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a job that inherently has its own risks, according to John Doherty, business manger and financial secretary for International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 6, a San Francisco union that represents 2,800 people and about a dozen workers on the Twin Peaks tunnel project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re only two ends of the tunnel. 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