California: IN BRIEF : SAN FRANCISCO : Safety Violations in Cranes Found

City officials say inspectors have found safety violations in half the high-rise construction cranes operating in San Francisco a month after a crane collapse killed five people. California Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors have ordered five cranes shut down until violations were corrected. Two other cranes were found to be in proper order, while the other three cranes in use at high-rise construction sites have yet to be inspected, officials said. Mayor Art Agnos, who requested Cal/OSHA to do the inspections after the Nov. 28 disaster, promised to seek stricter supervision of the machines, warning careless operators that “we’re coming after you.” He said he will tell other mayors throughout the state of the result of the inspections and hoped that together they could pressure the state Legislature for stricter regulation.