Posted with permission from Confined Space, a newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues.
I wrote a few weeks ago about the death of three workers in a confined space incident where the initial worker passed out and two would-be rescuers died attempting to rescue the original victim. Last week, OSHA cited Douglas N. Higgins, Inc. and its related contracting company, McKenna Contracting with 10 “serious” violations totaling $119,507 in penalties for the deaths of three workers, Robert Wilson, 24, Elway Gray, 34, and Louis O’Keefe, 49, who died in similar circumstances last January 2017 while working in a Key Largo manhole from lethal levels of hydrogen sulfide and carbon monoxide.