Workers Death Leads to $43,000 Fine for Power Company

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed penalties of $43,000 for seven violations uncovered during an investigation into the 2012 death of a Nevada power company employee.A NV Energy lineman died Sept. 25, 2012, when he fell 75 feet from a temporary horizontal ladder he was using as a platform between a transmission tower and a live transmission line on the Moapa Paiute Reservation north of Las Vegas.Joy Flack, director of OSHA’s Las Vegas Area Office said in a statement that “NV Energy spelled disaster when it failed to ensure these workers were protected f...