Feds propose fining excavation company $1.35 million for violations found after two of its workers were pushed into a downtown trench and died

The US Department of Labor contiguous proposed $1.35 cardinal successful fines against Atlantic Coast Utilities and its owner, Laurence Moloney, for the deaths of workers Jordy Alexander Castaneda Romero and Juan Carlos Figueroa Gutierrez aft a dump motortruck pushed them into a nine-foot trench connected State Street connected Feb. 24.

"The incidental is the latest successful a agelong past of ignoring the information and wellness of its employees," the section said.

Chief among the violations was the company’s refusal to bid Romero, Gutierrez and different workers to admit and debar work-related hazards. OSHA besides recovered Atlantic Coast Utilities LLC/Advanced Utilities Inc. failed to behaviour worksite inspections to place and close hazards, including the risks of being struck by operation vehicles and different traffic, crushed oregon engulfed successful an unguarded trench, and being flooded by oxygen-deficient oregon toxic atmospheres successful the trench and an adjacent manhole.

List of information violations | List of wellness violations.

Moloney and his companies stay nether probe for a abstracted incidental connected Crestway Road successful East Boston connected Aug. 13, arsenic good arsenic for imaginable wage violations, the section added.

In a statement, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh - who was Boston politician astatine the clip of the deaths - added:

Two hardworking radical mislaid their lives due to the fact that Atlantic Coast Utilities enactment its ain profits implicit workers’ information and health. The nonaccomplishment of employers to travel national information and wellness regulations designed to support workers retired of harm’s mode is perfectly unacceptable. This is yet different reminder of wherefore the department’s ngo to support workers’ rights and guarantee harmless moving conditions is truthful important.

Even earlier the deaths, Moloney and his companies had been cited six times for 14 violations, moving up fines of $81,242, astir of which went unpaid, and was turned implicit to backstage indebtedness collectors.