After cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally murdered by actor and producer Alec Baldwin in October 2021, the project received a citation.

On Wednesday, New Mexico workplace safety inspectors imposed the highest penalty allowed on a film production firm for weapons safety violations on the set of “Rust,” where a cameraman was fatally shot by actor and producer Alec Baldwin in October 2021.

Rust Movie Productions was fined $139,793 by New Mexico’s Occupational Health and Safety Bureau, which also distributed a scathing narrative of safety failures in violation of industry standards, including testimony that production managers took limited or no action to address two misfires on set prior to the fatal shooting.

The agency also found that crew members’ gun safety issues went unheeded, and that weapons specialists were not authorised to decide on extra safety training.

“Based on our investigators’ findings, what we had was a set of obvious hazards to employees regarding the use of firearms and management’s failure to act on those obvious hazards,” Bob Genoway, bureau chief for occupational safety, told The Associated Press.

On Oct. 21, 2021, Baldwin was pointing a pistol at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins inside a tiny chapel during setup for the production of a scene when it went off, killing Hutchins and wounded the director, Joel Souza, at a ranch on the outskirts of Santa Fe.

On the New Mexico set of the Western picture, Baldwin said in a December interview with ABC News that he was aiming the gun at Hutchins at her command when it went off without him pushing the trigger.

A large-caliber revolver was delivered to Baldwin by an assistant director, David Halls, without contacting on-set weapons specialists during or after the pistol was loaded, according to a recent occupational safety study. Halls was also the safety coordinator, and he was there and observed two unintentional rifle discharges on set, according to regulators, and he and other management who were aware of the misfires took no investigative, remedial, or disciplinary action. Members of the crew expressed astonishment and dissatisfaction. According to the report, “the Safety Coordinator was present on set but took no immediate action to address safety issues.” “Management was given many opportunity to take corrective action but opted not to. Director Joel Souza and cameraman Halyna Hutchins were seriously harmed as a result of these errors. Halyna Hutchins died as a result of her injuries.”