State regulators on Thursday fined BART $210,000 in connection with the deaths of two track workers who were hit by a train last October during a union strike, accusing the transit agency of three "willful" violations of safety rules. The investigation by Cal/OSHA, which regulates workplace safety, said BART should not have allowed the workers, under a long-controversial policy called "simple approval," to do the Oct.

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