Plumbing Contractor Cited for Worker's Fatal Fall

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited a Georgia plumbing contractor after an employee suffered a fatal fall at a work site in June 2023. OSHA cited Silver Creek-based K&D Plumbing Inc. for willfully failing to develop and implement a permit-required confined space entry program before allowing workers to enter a manhole. The worker who died was part of a three-person crew replacing a sewer line at a high school in Rome, Georgia. The employee entered a manhole to clear a blockage and fell about 20 feet and later died from the fall and exposure to high levels of...