The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined two Philly construction firms a total of $397,000 for their roles in the Center City building collapse that killed six people and injured 14 more in June.
"If the two employers that OSHA has cited today had followed very basic and obvious safety precautions, six people who were killed on June 5, 2013, would be alive today," said David Michaels, the assistant secretary of labor for occupational safety and health.
Michaels said that Griffin Campbell, the general contractor at a demolition site that caused the deadly collapse, and Sean Benschop, the excavator operator, showed "willful disregard for safety standards and to the lives of workers."
Of the fines, $313,000 are for Campbell, who was cited for failing to produce an engineering survey prior to the demolition, using a dangerous method for taking the building apart and many other violations of federal regulations.
Benschop has been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
The tragedy occurred when an unsupported wall from the demolition site fell onto the roof of an adjacent Salvation Army thrift store and crushed those inside.