N.J. Construction Fatality Results in OSHA Fines for Company
Rudiyim Delgado Estrada was only 19 years old when he was crushed and killed by a conveyor belt at work. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) subsequently launched an investigation and found several violations on the job site. Now, they are levying fines against the company responsible.
According to an OSHA press release:
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a demolition and concrete recycling company in Newark with 11 serious safety violations. The company uses two names: T. Fiore Demolition Inc. and T. Fiore Recycling Corp. OSHA initiated an investigation following the death of a worker who was crushed in a conveyor belt. The company failed to install machine guarding prior to allowing the worker to operate alongside the conveyor system.
The serious violations involve inadequate guardrails; inadequate grab bars on fixed ladders; a lack of safe access to scaffolds; unsafe debris accumulation on scaffold platforms, which creates trip and fall hazards; a lack of “lockout/tagout” training and procedures for machines’ energy sources as well as not providing lockout/tagout devices to workers who service dangerous equipment; unguarded moving machine parts, belts and pulleys; and the improper storage of compressed gasses. A serious violation occurs when there is substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result from a hazard about which the employer know or should have known.
Anytime a fatality occurs on a worksite, OSHA will investigate, looking to see if perhaps the death could have been avoided. If they find the company was negligent in their ability to keep a job site safe, they can be sanctioned with fines and even shut down.
The law firm of Ginarte Gonzalez & Winograd, LLP is representing the family of of Rudiyim Delgado Estrada.
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