Thursday, January 10, 2008

Beck Group cited by OSHA over Landmark floor collapse

From Dallas Business Journal:

The Beck Group has been cited with U.S. Department of Labor worker safety violations following an investigation into a July 5 partial collapse of a concrete floor on a luxury high-rise condominium that injured 13 employees in a suburb of Denver, Colo.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed $48,500 in penalties against The Beck Group, a Dallas-based general contractor that also does business as Beck Residential, for nine alleged violations. The violations listed included improper construction of concrete formwork, not protecting employees from trip hazards, not putting rails around elevator and stairwell shafts, not establishing a crosswalk through or around a work zone, and improperly securing a ladder.

OSHA listed all of the citations as "serious" but did not list any of the Beck citations as "willful."

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