Federal Occupational Safety and Health and city Licenses and
Inspections investigators are reviewing a serious injury at a non-union
construction site near 18th and Montgomery that sent a Philadelphia worker to
Hahnemann Hospital Tuesday.
The worker's employer, plastering contracter Darren McGee,
referred my questions to his lawyer, who has not returned a call. McGee was
fined a proposed $85,800 for "repeated" safety violations on a job at
1201 Latona Street, including "a lack of fall protection" and
"no restraints/bracing," and again in November for $89,760 for violations
at 274 Leverington Ave., OSHA spokeswoman Leni Fortson told me. McGee had
"similar violations" in 2010 and 2011, OSHA said in a statement after
the September violations. OSHA lacks authority in such cases to shut a
contractor down, Fortson added.
City L&I inspectors shut the site down at 1 p.m.
yesterday after a worker "fell 40 feet", apparently after touching an
electric wire, Al Martino, a Bricklayers union representative who visited the
accident site, told me. He said he knew the injured worker, a former union
member who's been working non-union jobs for four years 'because he needed
income." He said the man has been transferred to another hospital and
listed in critical condition. Martino
also told me he had personally noted potential safety violations at the site
prior to yesterday's accident, and reported them to OSHA.
Source: Philly.com
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