The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) hit the San Antonio Museum of Science and Technology with nearly $9,000 in financial penalties over an accident took the life of the local organization’s founder and CEO.
Inventor David Monroe, 72, died in September when a jet engine he and a colleague were attempting to bring into an exhibit space rolled onto him at a loading dock at Boeing Center at Tech Port, according to multiple news reports. San Antonio police investigated the fatality and determined there was “no criminal element” involved.
Even so, OSHA fined the San Antonio Museum of Science and Technology, or SAMSAT, $4,965 for failing to train workers on how to how to properly secure items they move up or down a loading dock, according to a document released earlier this month…