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April 25, 2009
$100,000 Fine in California Burn Death
Riviera Healthcare Center, a nursing home in Pico Rivera, California, has been fined $100,000 and given California's most stringent citation for a recent patient death.
A wheelchair-bound resident at the facility was trying to light his cigarette, while unsupervised, last December 23 when he set himself on fire. He was burned over forty percent of his body and died eighteen days later.
The facility allowed the man to smoke without a safety plan and the staff failed to utilize a fire blanket and fire extinguisher to put out the fire.
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