Company faces $72,000 in fines for construction worker’s death

Posted on June 20, 2014

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited GLF Construction Corp. for 14 safety violations and is proposing $72,000 in penalties following its investigation of the Jan. 16 death of David Kimberl at the construction site of the new Aucilla River bridge on U.S. 98.

Kimberl, 18, was crushed to death when a bridge panel, weighing nearly 1,800 pounds, fell on him while he was dismantling a section of the old Aucilla River bridge. Kimberl had been on the job for one week and had never worked in bridge construction.

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