Hall Construction LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Mar 19, 2022 (fatal): Employee is killed when struck by fallen piece of metal

At 9:30 a.m. on March 19, 2022, employees were removing old cyclones to replace them with new cyclones. Employees were cutting the old cyclones into smaller pieces and pushing them off of a platform approximately 40 feet 10 inches above the floor. Employee #1 was working as the spotter and was struck by a fallen piece of metal and died due to generalized blunt force trauma. Employee #1 was killed.

Incident on Dec 9, 2002 (fatal): Two employees killed when trench collapsed

On December 9, 2002, Employee #1 was laying an 8-in. line for a new sewer line a cross an existing roadbed inside a 17-ft-deep trench. An 8-ft trench shield was inverted and situated at the end of the trench, at the area where Employee #1 wa s working. Employee #2 was at the end of the trench on a ladder situated over th e area and sloping back into the trench. An area between the inverted shield and the sloped area did not have a protection system. Employee #2, who was standing on the ladder, was positioning another section of the pipe to take it down to E mployee #1, when a side wall of the trench collapsed. This knocked the ladder in to the trench, causing Employee #2 to fall and be buried beneath the collapsing trench wall. Employee #1 who was partially inside the inverted trench shield was also buried. Employees #1 and #2 died of asphyxia. Emergency Medical Service (E MS) arrived within 15 minutes and retrieved both bodies from the trench using a backhoe.