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OSHA cites Fru-Con Construction after fatality at Maumee River Bridge project

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OSHA has proposed $150,000 in fines against Fru-Con Construction Corp. following the company's most recent violations of federal safety regulations that resulted in a fatal fall for one employee.

OSHA opened its latest inspection at the Maumee River Bridge construction project after learning that scaffolding had broken free from the bridge, causing a carpenter to fall approximately 80 feet to his death. OSHA subsequently issued two willful violations of federal workplace safety regulations, with the maximum total penalty of $140,000, and two serious citations, with proposed penalties totaling $10,000.

The willful citations allege that the company failed to have a competent person inspect the scaffold each time it was moved and re-erected and to ensure fall protection was used by employees when climbing over the parapet wall to gain access to the scaffold platform.

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