OSHA cites Delco contractor for repeat violations
A Havertown building contractor cited after two workers were injured when they came in contact with power lines, has been cited again by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
A Havertown building contractor cited after two workers were injured when they came in contact with power lines, has been cited again by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
OSHA said it had put DMAC Construction LLC, its owner, Darren McGee, and a previous company, McGee Plastering & Stucco Inc., on a list of "severe violators."
Companies under his control have been cited for more than 40 scaffolding violations since 2008, OSHA said.
McGee could not be reached for comment.
The recent round of eight citations, which carry a potential fine of $470,300, stem from complaints late in 2014 from two building sites in Philadelphia.
Bricklayers working on a house at 20th and Federal Streets in South Philadephia were permitted to erect scaffolding too close to power lines and without properly bracing it, OSHA said.
At a property at 15th and Thompson Streets in North Philadelphia, bricklayers were laying brick 35 feet above street level without fall protection, OSHA said.
OSHA cited McGee Plastering & Stucco Inc. in 2013 when a worker fell after he came in contact with an electrical wire at a construction site at 18th Street and Montgomery Avenue.
A similar incident occurred in 2011.
"These hazards are not new to DMAC Construction, yet the company refuses to make needed changes to put worker safety first," Nicholas DeJesse, director of OSHA's Philadelphia Area Office, said in a statement. "This employer must take immediate action to prevent an unnecessary tragedy."
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