A Massachusetts concrete company has agreed to plead guilty to violating Occupational Safety and Health Administration safety standards in connection with a 2023 incident in which a worker was crushed to death.
John Oliveira & Sons Stamp Concrete, Inc., a business operating out of East Freetown, ignored safety concerns, which led to the worker’s death, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Massachusetts.
The company used a large soil screener that was about 46 feet long and 13 feet high and weighed nearly 18 tons. According to prosecutors, the tail conveyor of the soil screener had suffered a ruptured hydraulic pressure line, causing it to close unexpectedly at various occasions throughout 2022 and 2023…