OSHA imposes fine for port death
The Occupational Safety and health Administration Wednesday fined the Port Everglades cargo handling company Sun Terminals Inc. $52,250 for safety violations related to a March incident in which a longshoreman was killed.
OSHA fined Sun Terminals for 21 serious safety violations and two minor violations, according to a report in the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Sun Terminals said it would contests the penalty.
Alleged violations included failure to property train employees and supervisors and exposing workers to unsafe work conditions, the report said. OSHA area director in Fort Lauderdale told the newspaper that an employee was in what OSHA would consider harm's way, and that with proper hand signals and training, the accident should not have happened.
Longshoreman Louis Clairmont, 33, was killed March 25 when a 20-foot container fell and pinned him against a steel wall in a Hamburg Sud containership being worked at the port.