Midwest Equipment Company is a crane rental and operations service company based in Cleveland, Ohio. In December 2018, a Midwest employee was seriously injured when a jib that he was helping to install on a crane fell and crushed him. As a result of this incident, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration conducted an inspection and issued Midwest a serious citation—consisting of two items, each containing two sub-items—alleging violations of four provisions of the Cranes and Derricks in Construction standard, 29 C.F.R. § 1926, Subpart CC. Following a hearing, Administrative Law Judge Sharon D. Calhoun affirmed the citation in its entirety and assessed the total proposed penalty of $15,912.