A Pennsylvania contractor was cited by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration after a lineman’s electrocution earlier this year.
OSHA announced Wednesday that it cited Blue Bell-based Concurrent Group LLC for five serious violations and proposed $40,937 in penalties after the utility worker died during a workplace incident in Miami, Florida in January.
During the incident, workers had parked a digger derrick truck underneath energized overhead power lines and the worker was killed by electricity when the truck’s boom came into contact with a 7,620-volt power line.
The company was cited for allowing employees to operate a digger truck too close to energized overhead power lines, failing to designate a supervisor to warn workers about the hazard, not ensuring protective equipment was in place to ground and insulate the area while employees worked near power lines, and failing to inspect the site prior to the start of work.
The company has 15 business days to contest the citation and proposed fines.