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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a willful citation to Angel Brothers Enterprises, Ltd. alleging a failure to protect an employee in an excavation from cave-ins as required by 29 C.F.R. § 1926.652(a)(1) with a proposed penalty of $70,000….

Clean Fuels of Indiana, Inc. is a fuel filtration and tank cleaning company. In December 2014, a Clean Fuels employee was found unresponsive and later died from gasoline inhalation while cleaning tanks at a construction site in Daytona Beach, Florida….

In October 2015, a Lane Construction Corporation employee was fatally injured while operating a diesel-powered hammer used to drive concrete support pillars (“piles”) at a bridge construction project in Ocoee, Florida. Following the accident, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration…

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued U.S. Postal Service a one-item citation alleging an other-than-serious violation of 29 C.F.R. § 1904.135(b)(1)(iv), a recordkeeping regulation that prohibits employers from “discharg[ing] or in any manner discriminat[ing] against any employee for reporting…

This case is on remand from the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Sec’y of Labor v. Angelica Textile Services, Inc., No. 18-2831 (2d Cir. July 20, 2020). The Second Circuit dismissed the Secretary’s appeal as moot…

This case is on remand from the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Kiewit Power Constructors Co. v. Sec’y of Labor, 959 F.3d 381 (D.C. Cir. 2020). Former Administrative Law Judge Stephen J. Simko, Jr., granted Respondent’s…

This proceeding is before the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (the “Commission”) under section 10(c) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, 29 U.S.C. § 651 et seq. (the “Act”). Respondent, Keenan, Hopkins, Suder and Stowell Contractors,…

This case is on remand from the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Randall Mechanical, Inc. v. Sec’y of Labor, 798 F. App’x 604 (11th Cir. 2020) (unpublished). Section 10(a) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act…

This case concerns a claim of alleged discrimination for reporting work-related injuries. It is brought under a new anti-discrimination regulation recently promulgated and published on May 12, 2016, under authority from the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, 29…

On July 30, 2018, DeNucci Constructors LLC (“DeNucci” or “Respondent”) performed work at a jobsite located at 500 Sabine Street in Austin, Texas (“Worksite”). (Ex. J-1 Stip. No. 5). On said date, two of Respondent’s employees, Daniel Ponce (“Ponce”) and…