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How Tech Can Improve Safety & Project Performance

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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. All Power Construction Corp.

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OSHA Fines South Florida Utility Contractor-Again

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Trench, water, and sewer work is dangerous work. Still, after 4 worker deaths, $282,103 in OSHA fines, and numerous citations since January 2017, working for D.N. Workers doing such work for Douglas N. Higgins Inc., Higgins, Inc. find it can be so dangerous, some of them die. Higgins, Inc. seemingly hasn't gotten any safer.

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Sewer Contractor Fined for Trenching Hazards

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OSHA has cited Kuechle Underground Inc. for failing to protect workers from cave-in hazards after an employee’s leg was broken when a trench wall collapsed during a residential sewer line installation. of Kimball, Minn.,

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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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Illinois Plumbing Contractor Ignores 3 OSHA Warnings In One Month

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Less than three weeks after being cited for exposing workers to unsafe trenches, federal investigators saw a Chicago plumbing contractor, Og Plumbing, exposing the same four-man crew to trenching hazards as they worked on sewer and water utilities at two locations in Oak Park on consecutive days in March 2016.

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