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Trench Accident Brings Contractor $53,900 in Fines

Tuesday, May 31, 2011 | 0

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued All American Concrete of Largo two citations, with fines totaling $53,900, following an accident that injured two workers who were installing a storm water culvert in St. Petersburg.OSHA reported that in February, a bucket was removed from a back hoe and placed at the edge of an excavation.Two employees were working in the excavation when the bucket fell into the trench, crushing the leg of one worker and bruising the back of another, OSHA reported.OSHA issued the company one willful safety citation, with a $49,000 fine, for allegedl...

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