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Business fined for OSHA violations

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A Gulf Breeze business was recently fined nearly $150,000 by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for safety violations found at a school construction site in Milton.

A.E. New Jr. Inc. was cited for cited for three willful safety violations with penalties totaling $132,000.

OSHA determined that competently trained employees saw violations that jeopardized safety but did not take corrective action. The violations included:

- Employees working on an improperly erected scaffold
- Employees working from a makeshift platform
- Employees using a forklift to lift them to the building's roof without using required fall protection equipment

OSHA inspectors also cited the company for four serious safety violations with proposed penalties of $10,000.

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