BREAKING: New Mexico Fines ‘Corrosion’ Production Company Max Penalty More than Alec Baldwin-Involved Shooting

New Mexico fined a movie production company responsible for the “Rust” set the maximum amount possible for safety violations regarding firearms on Wednesday.

Filming of the movie “Rust” stopped after a fatal incident on October 21, 2021, resulted in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding of one other. Actor Alec Baldwin was pointing a prop firearm at Hutchins when the gun went off, striking Hutchins and director Joel Souza.

New Mexico workplace safety regulators fined Rust Movie Productions $136,793 as well as issued a “scathing” review of the production company’s safety practices, according to the Associated Press.

“What we had, based on our investigators’ findings, was a set of obvious hazards to employees regarding the use of firearms and management’s failure to act upon those obvious hazards,” New Mexico Occupational Safety and Health Administration Chief Bob Genoway told the AP.

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