Once again, fall-related violations were behind most of the biggest fines OSHA issued to construction companies in the second quarter of 2019.
One of the contractors, Shawn D. Purvis, has been charged criminally in relation to a death that occurred on one of his company's jobsites. Prosecutors today are more willing to file criminal charges against construction companies, their executives and supervisors after a workplace accident, usually when serious injury or death results.