Dive summary:
- The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration says a worker's death at a New York City subway construction site could have been prevented but a company did not inspect cables holding up a crane. That's a wrong answer, Yonkers Contracting Co. says.
- A Manitowoc 4100 crawler crane that Yonkers owned was working last April when a rope cable snapped and 120 feet of a 170-foot boom came down. It killed Michael Simermeyer.
- OSHA proposes a $75,000 fine on Yonkers and a subcontractor. Yonkers says it had done did the necessary inspections.
From the article:
Federal safety officials cited Yonkers Contracting Co. and a subcontractor and proposed penalties against the companies in connection with a crane accident last April that killed a 30-year-old laborer at a Manhattan subway jobsite. ...
