(Bloomberg) -- PG&E Corp.’s field inspections of its equipment and surrounding vegetation for wildfire risks are falling well short of required vigilance, a federal judge in San Francisco said.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup said in a court filing Tuesday that the monitor he appointed to oversee PG&E’s compliance with its wildfire safety management has uncovered numerous shortcomings due to human error and a failure to escalate problems.

The failures are “the same problems that offender PG&E has long had,” Alsup wrote.

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