Worker Deaths Result in Penalties against Subcontractors

Subcontractors at a Pearl Harbor naval facility are facing $46,000 in fines from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration after a 7-ton buoy struck and killed two employees last December, according to the administration.  Workers at the Naval Inactive Ships Maintenance Office in Honolulu, Hawaii, were conducting repairs when a chain suspending the buoy broke, striking two men and killing them. Two other men were injured at the facility.  OSHA found five violations by the subcontractors, Truston Technologies and Healy Tibbitts, and issued citations for failing to prote...