Indiana company has third worker fatality since 2010
OSHA has cited Jeffboat LLC for nine safety violations, including one willful violation, at its Jeffersonville,Indiana facility after a worker was fatally crushed on Aug. 19, when he became trapped between a malfunctioning transfer car and a barge.
This fatality is the third at the barge manufacturing facility since May 2010, when two other workers were killed in separate incidents on different days. OSHA has conducted five inspections since that time, resulting in citations for 46 violations, including the nine from this most recent investigation.