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OSHA Cites Contractors For Safety Hazards At Lake Worth, Florida Site Proposed Penalties Total $117,550

November 1, 2005

The U.S. Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited two Florida construction contractors and proposed total penalties of $117,550 after inspecting a job site in Lake Worth, Florida.

Drawdy Brothers Construction II received two repeat citations, with proposed penalties totaling $75,000, for exposing workers to falls from scaffolds with inadequate planking and from open-sided floors of the building under construction.

The company had been cited previously for similar violations and those citations had become a final order of the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.

Drawdy also received eight serious citations, with proposed penalties totaling $34,000, for exposing workers to falls through unguarded floor openings and from scaffolding that lacked proper foundations and braces to prevent tipping.

These citations also charged that Drawdy failed to provide employees with eye protection when they operated circular saws.

Among the hazards noted in the six serious citations against general contractor Max South Construction were inadequately erected scaffolds, unguarded floor openings and accumulated debris at the base of the scaffolding.

The proposed penalties for these citations total $8,550.