OSHA cites contractor, staffing company for worker’s death at Judson ISD campus

CONVERSE, Texas – After a construction worker died earlier this year on the Converse Elementary School campus, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration accused a contractor and a staffing company of committing multiple safety violations.

The construction worker, later identified as 63-year-old Baltazar Rubio-Olvera, was removing dirt from the school’s crawl space with a mini-excavator.

According to a news release, Rubio-Olvera became trapped between the equipment and a concrete beam, which led to his death. As a result of the incident, OSHA opened an investigation into Rubio-Olvera’s death…

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