Settlement to honor two workers killed in crane accident
A settlement agreement between the U.S. Department of Labor and Mass Bay Electrical Corp. commits the East Boston electrical contractor to extensive corrective action to prevent future deaths and injuries and establishes a training fund in the memory of Joseph Boyd III and John Loughran, who were killed when a crane toppled in Bourne on April 12, 2014.
The two men, members of Local 104 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, were working atop a personnel platform raised on truck-mounted crane when the crane overturned and fell approximately 140 feet with both men harnessed to it, killing both men. The department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Mass Bay Electrical for, among other things, not training employees properly or evaluating their ability to operate the crane properly. The company also failed to follow the manufacturer's procedures for safely operating the crane. The company contested the citations initially but has now reached a settlement with the Labor Department.