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Friday, April 9, 2021
Vol. 9, No. 15
LEGISLATORS WRITE TO A.G. PAGE 8
FLOWER HILL OKS YEARLY BUDGET
FATE OF MARIJUANA IN NASSAU UNCLEAR
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Contractor gets $135K fine for trench collapse
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OSHA issues ruling for Roslyn business following two deaths BY R O S E W E L D ON The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has imposed a six-figure penalty on a Roslyn-based contractor after a 2020 trench collapse killed two workers. Superstructure, foundation and concrete company RC Structures Inc. of Roslyn will pay $135,612 in penalties after a 30-foot-deep trench in Oyster Bay collapsed, leading to the deaths of Deniz Dos Santos Almeida, 57, and Max Antonio Turcios, 46, both of New Jersey. The collapse happened on Jan. 28, 2020, at a site on Wolver Hollow Road, where the company was installing septic rings. Following a January 2020 investigation, OSHA found that the company did not provide a protective system to prevent a trench collapse and did not remove the employees from the trench after a competent person employed
by the company had identified a cave-in hazard. OSHA also found the trench lacked an adequate ladder or other safe means of exit and that the company allowed stacked concrete and excavated materials to be stored at the trench’s edge. In addition, employees working adjacent to and beneath an operating excavator lacked head protection, exposing them to hazards. OSHA cited RC Structures for willful and serious violations in July, and the company contested its citations to the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, according to Kevin Sullivan, OSHA Long Island area director. “A trench can collapse suddenly and with great force, crushing and burying workers in an instant,” Sullivan said. “Amid such dangerous conditions, employers must follow all excavation safety requirements and remove employees to prevent tragedies like this.” Continued on Page 42
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ROSLYN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Roslyn Middle School’s Community Service Club ran a Stuck for a Few Bucks fundraiser, where students and staff would purchase pieces of duct tape. The pieces were then used to tape Principal Craig Johanson to a wall of the building last week. All proceeds will go toward sponsoring an orphan in Meru, Kenya, to attend school.
Boar’s Head box truck overturns on LIE, kills 2 BY R O S E W E L D ON
North Hills, the Nassau County Police Department said. Around 5:05 a.m., a box Two people died when a Boar’s Head box truck crashed truck with Boar’s Head brandinto an overpass on the east- ing was traveling on the LIE bound side of the Long Island near exit 36 when it left the Expressway early Monday in roadway and struck the over-
pass for Shelter Rock Road. In addition to police, the 3rd and 5th companies of the Manhasset-Lakeville Fire Department, as well as the department’s ambulance unit, responded to the Continued on Page 32
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