Word: inspectors
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...incident is a classic example of the hazards of a labyrinthine bureaucracy. The danger was known, reported by a state inspector, and ignored. Red tape encumbered state, city and Harvard offices--all were aware of the threat, yet all were confused about who had official responsibility. So none took the initiative...
State documents reveal that a state inspector on unrelated business was examining the Carpenter Center in October 1985 when he found the widely-spaced stairway rails "in gross violation of our present code." According to current code, stair railings may not be separated by more than six inches...
...decades the Lamb Funeral Home in Pasadena was one of the most reputable mortuaries in Southern California. Then last January a fire inspector uncovered evidence that Proprietors Laurieanne Sconce, 52, her husband Jerry, 54, and their son David, 32, had found unsavory ways to exploit their growing cremation business. Following a tip, the official visited a ceramics plant owned by the Sconces and discovered burning bodies in kilns. Police believe the Sconces illegally disposed of as many as 16,000 bodies in 1985 and 1986. Last week the Sconces pleaded innocent to 67 criminal offenses, including performing illegal multiple cremations...
...arrested for rustling two months ago -- Buddy Goodman, 46, and Benton Demaree, 38 -- allegedly used trailers to ship 45 head of cattle from an area southwest of Fresno to livestock auctions nearly 100 miles miles away in San Luis Obispo and Kern counties. Only when a state cattle-brand inspector spotted a telltale marker hidden within a steer's ear were the suspected thieves nabbed...
...production of Uncle Vanya, fell from the stairway to a concrete basement floor during a film-screening of the play last month. The wide staircase railing, which has alarmed employees at the center since it was built in 1963 and was noted as a hazard by a state building inspector in 1985, featured wide gaps between its horizontal bars that allowed the small child to slip through...