The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health fined a Bay Area construction company $38,250 for violations identified during an investigation into a fatal accident.
James Overfield, 28, was killed April 15 while working on a project replacing an old water pipe hear Highway 101 in Petaluma when a 40-foot, concrete-coated steel pipe weighing about 8,000 pounds rolled down a hill and crushed him.
The Division of Occupational Safety and Health, commonly called Cal-OSHA, said the pipe was not secured to the forklift being used to unload it. And the pipe was placed on the ground wi...
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