An excavator at a Philadelphia demolition site where a wall fell onto an adjacent Salvation Army thrift store, killing six and injuring others, failed to properly brace the wall, a workplace safety and health judge ruled.
Sean Benschop was using the excavator in the city center on June 5, 2013, when the freestanding four-story masonry wall of the building being demolished collapsed and fell on the one-story building.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued a serious citation and a willful citation to Benschop, who was doing business as S&R Contracting. The willful citation alleged a violation of 29 ...
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