Workplace safety regulator says management failed in fatal shooting on Rust set

Rust movie armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, centre, talks with her attorney Jason Bowles, right, and her defence team during her involuntary manslaughter trial (Jim Weber/Santa Fe New Mexican via AP, Pool)

Complaints by a movie weapons supervisor to managers went unheeded as she sought more time and resources to fulfil safety duties on the set of the western movie Rust, where actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, a workplace safety investigator has testified.

Defence lawyers for armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed called the inspector among their first witnesses to refute allegations of involuntary manslaughter.