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How Tech Can Improve Safety & Project Performance

Construction Business Owner

How Tech Can Improve Safety & Project Performance ccapoccia Sun, 08/27/2023 - 13:27 Some of today’s toughest challenges for construction owners and general contractors (GCs) involve keeping workers safe on the job and ensuring the overall health of their projects.

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OSHA Cites Contractor Following Trench Collapse

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Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Ballard Construction Co. a sewer and water utilities contractor, for exposing employees to excavation hazards after a worker was injured and hospitalized following a trench collapse. The contractor faces…

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OSHA Fines Contractor and Temp Staffing Agency $152,618

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Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited All Power Construction Corporation of Huntsville, Alabama and staffing agency Labor Finders of Tennessee Inc. after a temporary employee installing sewer lines suffered a fatal injury in a trench collapse in Huntsville.

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Illinois Contractor Arrested for Failure to Pay OSHA Penalties

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Mike Neri, owner of Mike Neri Sewer & Water Contractor Inc. 27, 2014 after failing to comply with OSHA standards and not paying penalties associated with safety violations, according to the Society for Human Resource Management.' of Elk Grove Village, Ill., was arrested Oct.

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Rhobina Electric Fined Following Fatal Trench Accident

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined Rhobina Electric $37,318 after a trench collapsed and killed a worker at a Taylor, Mississippi, job site. Rhobina, based in Batesville, Mississippi, is a commercial and plumbing contractor. The worker had been installing sewer pipe…

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Illinois Contractor Named Severe Violator for Repeat Trenching Hazards

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OSHA has cited Cross Construction Inc. for three safety violations for failing to protect workers from cave-ins during trenching operations while installing sewer pipes in Danville. Cave-ins are the leading cause of injury and death in excavation," said Tom Bielema, OSHA''s area director in Peoria. of Urbana, Ill.,

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Contractor Cited For Letting Employees Work in Unprotected Trench

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. . The Occupation Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued one willful citation to an employer for allowing employees to work in a 9.5-foot-deep At the time of the inspection, workers were installing sewer lines at the intersection of Lee and Washington Roads in Fort Jackson, S.C.

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