The U.S. Labor Department cited a Florida painting contractor for willfully exposing employees to fall and drowning hazards after a worker fell into a river near Savannah, Georgia, and drowned.
Investigators with the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration looked into the April 7 incident, in which bridge painters with Seminole Equipment “were removing scaffolding from the southbound (Interstate 95) bridge on the Ogeechee River when one worker fell into the river and drowned.”
OSHA concluded that Seminole Equipment did not ensure that employees used fall protection and life jackets while working on the bridge section…