Company may face negligent homicide charges in construction site accident
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If the claim of negligence is substantiated, then the construction company who put the platforms together could be facing charges of negligent homicide. Criminally negligent homicide is a felony which can result in 2 years of jail time and a fine of $10,000.
The warrant was issued last week, enabling police to seize parts of a mast climber, which is a platform scaffold used by workers to scale the outside walls of buildings. According to the warrant, the device which was seized was constructed by American Mast Climbers of Whitney.
General Metroplex Interiors, the subcontractor hired to handle the building of stucco and frame work, hired American Mast Climbers to install and maintain the scaffolding.
The pieces of scaffolding were seized by investigators in order to determine what caused the equipment failure that ultimately led to the collapse. OSHA investigators, after examining the equipment, informed police that some of the components that made up the mast climbers were faulty. The use of this faulty equipment, says OSHA, may be enough to warrant a charge of criminally negligent homicide.
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