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‘Rust’ Producers to Pay Reduced $100,000 Penalty in OSHA Settlement (EXCLUSIVE)

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Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer The producers of “Rust” have agreed to pay a reduced penalty of $100,000 to resolve the OSHA case that arose from the shooting death of the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins by Alec Baldwin.

The New Mexico Occupational Health and Safety Bureau issued a $136,793 penalty last April, the highest allowed by law. Rust Movie Productions was scheduled to challenge the citation at a state commission hearing in June.

Under the settlement, the state agency agreed to the reduced penalty and dropped its claim that the production committed a “willful” violation of safety rules.

A “willful” citation is the most severe under OSHA’s enforcement system. The production will instead accept a “serious” citation, a lower level violation.

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