Plumbing Company Cited for 3rd Safety Violation

The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) cited Kellenberger Plumbing & Underground for one willful and one serious safety violation for not providing cave-in protection or having a competent person on site to remove employees from a hazardous area. The total amount of the two citations was $59,290.The agency opened an investigation under OSHA’s National Emphasis Program on trenching and excavation after receiving a complaint that two workers were removing a sewer line in a trench more than 8 feet deep at a workplace under construction in Naperville, Illinois, on March 4.“An unprotected trench can bury a worker under thousands of pounds of soil in seconds