Californian contractor in fatal collapse did not have license.
A California contractor was not licensed in Hawaii to perform a 2009 demolition job that resulted in the death of a worker at Campbell Industrial Park, a Star-Bulletin investigation has found.
AG Transport needed a contractor’s license to perform the demolition of Hawaiian Cement’s preheating tower in Hawaii, but didn’t have one – as required by state law, Verna Oda, executive officer of the state Contractors License Board, told the Star-Bulletin.
State Labor Director Darwin Ching has not responded to the newspaper’s query about the level of demolition competence of AG Transport, including its lack of a Hawaii contractor’s license and why the information was not included in the Labor Department’s investigation of the accident.
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