Judge Vacates OSHA Citation Against Texas Highway Contractor

A federal safety citation against a Texas road building company whose worker was struck by a car that drove into a work zone was thrown out by an administrative law judge.

The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration had proposed a $14,502 fine against Williams Brothers Construction Co., alleging it didn’t adequately protect workers on a Houston-area interstate project.

The agency alleged a violation of the Occupational Safety and Health Act’s general duty clause, which requires employers to provide workplaces that are free of known, potentially deadly hazards that can be feasibly corrected.

But OSHA didn’t prove that Williams Brothers’ ...