Construction company in Idaho airport hangar collapse ignored safety standards, OSHA says

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Source: Associated Press

Construction company in Idaho airport hangar collapse ignored safety standards, OSHA says

Updated 8:00 PM EDT, July 29, 2024

BOISE, Idaho. (AP) — Federal safety investigators on Monday cited a construction company in the deadly collapse of an Idaho airport hangar, saying it exercised a “blatant disregard” for federal safety standards.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed nearly $200,000 in penalties for Big D Builders, Inc., KBOI-TV reported. The penalties stem from one willful violation and three serious violations of federal safety regulations.

“Big D Builders’ blatant disregard for federal safety regulations cost three workers their lives and caused at least eight others to suffer painful injuries,” OSHA Area Director David Kearns said.

Big D Builders, based in Meridian, Idaho, in an emailed statement on Monday said the company had no comment on the report or its findings because of a pending lawsuit filed by the families of two of the construction workers who were killed.

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1. Project 2025 and/or SCOTUS

plan on getting rid of OSHA or at least making the standards so weak that "anything goes".

The idiot trump voters, many of whom work in industries that have OSHA oversight and which are dangerous, really don't understand what would happen in the corporate paradise that is P2025.

We won't go back ( in this case to the 1890s ).