American Water Subsidiary Cited by OSHA For Employee's Death
Missouri American Water will pay a six-figure penalty for a fatal accident in May 2011.
The U.S. Labor Department is coming down with stiff penalties against a subsidiary of Voorhees-based American Water over an employee's death in 2011. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced it is charging the Creve Coeur, MO-based Missouri American Water Company with willful violations in connection with an accident where a saw kicked back and killed an employee in Joplin, MO, following a deadly tornado there in May 2011. KOAM-TV reported on the accident last spring, and at the time indicated the employee, Robert Clark, died from an injury to his neck. View the OSHA citations on the agency's website. The charges carry a penalty totaling $140,000. “Employers such as Missouri American Water have a responsibility to…
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Paul J. DiBartolo
8:38 am on Friday, November 9, 2012
I'm not sure what the purpose of this piece is all about. There is no description of the attending circumstances and following the links provides only one side of the story - OSHA's version. My take is that the individual was at a disaster clean-up site so I would think it was incumbent upon him to make sure the work he was being asked to perform was safe. I work with electricity, in many forms, … more ›