Massachusetts Utility Faces $168,000 in Fines for Worker Fatalities
“These deaths were preventable,” said Brenda Gordon, OSHA’s area director for Boston and southeastern Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Bay Electrical Corp. could have saved the lives of two workers who died in an April crane tip-over if it had followed the crane manufacturer’s operating instructions and trained its employees on the crane’s proper operation, OSHA asserts.
The employees were working from a raised personnel platform attached to an Elliott 40142 truck-mounted crane. They were working on power lines on the mainland side of the Cape Cod Canal when the crane overturned and fell more than 150 feet to the ground, according to OSHA.
