The Nation : Fatal Cave-in Brings Fine
A Texas firm will be fined $231,400, a record for a construction company, in the case of a worker killed when a 10-foot-deep trench caved in on him in March, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration said. ABC Utilities Services Inc. of Fort Worth was accused of 28 safety violations. OSHA said that the firm had consistently ignored federal regulations requiring trenches to be shored to prevent cave-ins and that another of its workers had been killed in a similar accident in 1983. ABC Utilities said the worker in the March accident had ignored orders to get out of the trench.
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