Teenager's on-the-job training results in fall, severe injury
Construction company cited for willfully violating safety laws
A chance to get on-the-job training in construction turned tragic when a Delaware high school student suffered a severe head injury after a one-story fall off an unguarded balcony at a local construction site.
In the July 2014 accident, the young man was hurt while removing construction debris from an unguarded balcony at a new, multifamily construction site as a cooperative education student employed by Bear, Delaware-based Reybold Homes Inc. OSHA inspectors responded to the scene to investigate and determined the company willfully exposed him to fall hazards by not providing proper safeguards.