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Contractor Placed on "Severe Violator" List after Repeated Trench Violations

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Mike Neri Sewer & Water Contractor Inc., Mike Neri Sewer & Water Contractor Inc., April 8, 2013. Elk Grove Village, Ill., has been placed in OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program following a series of repeat trenching violations. Proposed penalties total $110,440. Elk Grove Village, Ill., read more'

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Contractor Repeatedly Cited for Trenching Hazards

Construction Equipment

For a second time, OSHA cited Mike Neri Sewer & Water Contractor Inc. An inspector witnessed the hazard while traveling past the construction site on July 24, 2013, leading to an official inspection.' of Elk Grove Villiage, Ill.

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Seeking Partner On 250,000 sq. ft. Joint Operation Center – Must Be Capable of Bonding $250M

Constructonomics

Letters of interested are due to the government on February 8, 2013. Project Description: The scope of this contract will include constructing a multi-story Joint Operations Center (JOC) along with supporting infrastructure. The JOC will be constructed to LEED Silver level. Below is the project description.

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Illinois Contractor Banned From Excavation Work After OSHA Violations

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A federal court has banned an Illinois sewer and water contractor from trenching, excavation and construction after exposing employees to trenching hazards. . The April 2013 penalties were issued by OSHA for exposing workers to trenching hazards on a job site in Des Plaines, Ill.

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Chicago Engineering Company Faces More Citations

Construction Equipment

OSHA cited the company for willful violations for again failing to protect workers from trench cave-ins while installing water and sewer lines in November 2013. for failing to protect workers from trenching hazards at a job site at East 93rd Street and South Woodlawn Avenue in Chicago. Proposed penalties total $147,000.'

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#75:  Recovery for Defective Work After Termination for Convenience

NH Construction Law

Steelwood Construction, Inc. , 3d 449 (2013), explains the logic. ” Depriving a terminated contractor of an opportunity to cure defects was likewise the basis for rejecting defective workmanship claims in TRG Construction, Inc. Water & Sewer Authority , 70 A.3d Shelter Products, Inc. 257 Or.App. 382, 307 P.3d

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Water on the Brain

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In the decades that followed, lawsuits, financial crises and other priorities sometimes brought the tunnel construction to a halt ( The $1 Billion Tunnel to Nowhere was the title of a New York magazine article published in 1979) or to move along so slowly that completion remained well beyond the horizon of city residents as the 20th century ended.