The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited a Blue Springs, Missouri, contractor for 12 violations and issued a $796,817 fine for exposing two workers to deadly cave-in hazards as they worked in an unprotected trench weakened by water pooling in an excavation site.
In an October 2021 inspection, OSHA inspectors observed two employees of Arrow Plumbing LLC installing water piping in a trench at a residential construction site and identified 12 alleged violations. The agency cited the company and owner Rick Smith for four willful violations, one repeated violation and seven ser...
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