Ruling Thwarts General Contractor's Attempt to Shift Blame for Scaffold Accident

An administrative law judge has ruled against a Massachusetts general contractor who argued that another contractor was responsible for an accident in which a scaffold broke at a job site, causing three workers to plummet 20 feet to the ground. The judge, with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, ruled that general contractor A.C. Castle Construction Co. Inc. and Daryl Provencher, doing business as Provencher Home Improvements, were operating as a single employer at the time of the October 2014 accident at a Wenham work site. As a result of the decision, A.C. Castle ...