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Bangor: OSHA cites 2 firms in Hermon electrocution

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Two contractors face a combined $121,500 in safety violation fines stemming from an accident last September at a residential construction site in Hermon where one employee was electrocuted and a second injured.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited J&S Carpentry of Columbia and Irving Equipment Inc. of Hampton, N.H., for 15 alleged safety violations in the Sept. 12 accident, which killed Angel Vallespi, 24, of Portland and seriously injured Robert McLeod of Harrington.

"The basic safeguards designed to prevent just this sort of accident were ignored here with fatal results," William Coffin, OSHA’s area director for Maine, said in a statement. "De-energizing the power line and maintaining a safe working distance from it would have prevented this death and injury."

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