The U.S. government has cited the production company Film Allman LLC for “knowingly” exposing its crew to an incident that resulted in the death of one, and the injury of eight others, according to Entertainment Weekly.

Camera assistant Sarah Jones, 27, was killed by a moving train while working on the film, Midnight Rider, a biopic on musician Greg Allman, on Feb. 20 in Wayne County, Ga.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), part of the Department of Labor, recommended fining the film’s producers $74,900 and cited them with one willful and one serious safety violation.

“It is unacceptable that Film Allman LLC knowingly exposed their crew to moving trains while filming on a live track and railroad trestle,” said Dr. David Michaels, in a statement. Dr. Michaels serves as OSHA’s Assistant Secretary of Labor.

In addition, Kurt Petermeyer, OSHA’s Regional Administrator for the Southeast, noted that Film Allman LLC’s “failure to develop a safety plan to prevent such hazards, including obtaining permission from the rail owner to use the tracks for filming, led to the death of one crew member and injuries to eight other employees.”

“This was a horrible tragedy and a horrific accident,” said the filmmakers, Randall Miller and Jody Savin, who posted bail after pleading not guilty to involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespass charges last month. “In the weeks and months that follow when the true facts of the events are revealed, people will know that this was not a crime: we never had criminal intent; we would never knowingly or intentionally put anybody’s safety at risk.”

If convicted of the criminal charges, the filmmakers could spend up to 10 years in prison.

OSHA issued the film company a willful citation for failing to put safety measures in place to avoid the moving train, and were issued the serious safety violation for a lack of safety equipment and protection measures on set while its crew was expected to work on active train tracks.