Excel Modular Scaffold & Leasing Company dba Excel Scaffolding and Leasing (Excel) contests a Citation and Notification of Penalty (Citation) issued by the Secretary. The Secretary issued the Citation upon the recommendation of Compliance Safety and Health Officer (CSHO) Joshua Mandrell following a fatality investigation he conducted at the dock area of the Marathon Galveston Bay Refinery in Texas City, Texas. An Excel employee drowned when a scaffolding component to which he had attached his personal fall arrest system collapsed and dragged him into Galveston Bay.