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The company’s executive leader, Dov Charney, had arranged the return by making masks. Four staff members died from the virus.
By Vanessa Friedman
In mid-March, as the coronavirus raged across New York, Washington State, California and New Jersey, and the crisis in personal protection equipment shortages grew, Dov Charney of Los Angeles Apparel was one of the first clothing retailers to step into the void.
Reopening his Los Angeles plant to provide face masks, Mr. Charney, the former CEO of American Apparel who overthrew amid accusations of embezzlement and deliberately authorized sexual harassment, went from Paris to Champion.
Los Angeles Apparel, their new company, was considered a key business. The federal government has a client, Charney said. The long road to redemption seemed, suddenly, much shorter.
But on July 10, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health ordered the closure of Mr. Charney’s production plant: an investigation revealed that more than three hundred showed infections among clothing personnel and four deaths. Three of the deaths occurred in June and one in July.
In a press release detailing the closure, the fitness branch cited “serious violations of public orders for physical fitness infection” and the lack of “choral with the DPH investigation into a COVID-1 nine outbreak.”
It was the first forced closure of a plant in Los Angeles due to coronavirus-like outbreaks, according to Jan King, regional fitness manager for South and West Los Angeles. Although the Department of Health conducts extensive research on apples, their best friends tend to resolve through actions with the companies involved.
“Business owners and operators have the corporate, ethical and social duty of their staff and their families to produce a paint environment that sure adheres to all the rules of fitness painters: this duty is more critical than ever as we continue to fight this fatal virus.” Barbara Ferrer, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. , in a closure, which contained a timetable for the investigation.
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