Labor Dept. Fines Hyde Park Contractor $200,000 for Cave-in Hazard in Framingham
Hyde Park Contractor to pay $200,000 fine and significantly overhaul safety practices after exposing employees in Framingham and Cambridge to cave-in hazards.
As part of a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor, P. Gioioso & Sons Inc., a Hyde Park contractor with a long history of violating excavation safety standards, has agreed to pay a $200,000 fine for exposing its employees to cave-in hazards. The contractor also will significantly overhaul its safety practices to minimize trenching hazards and enhance worker safety. P. Gioioso & Sons Inc., which primarily works on underground water and sewer mains, has been cited nine times since 2000 by the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration for violations of OSHA’s trenching and excavation safety standards, most recently in 2011 at work sites in Cambridge and Framingham. OSHA found employees working in unprotected trenches …
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Joe Rizoli
10:47 pm on Monday, April 2, 2012
Someone please tell me that MOST of these people were NOT illegal Immigrants. The Upper Crust Pizza in Boston MAY be part of this. I know they were already hit with a huge fine some months back for doing the same thing. It seems a lot of Illegal Brazilians worked there. Now lets get this straight from ME, I am ON the Side of the Brazilians here and those cheated out of their real earnings. My … more ›