Central university substance consort punished over $16k for workers modification – Journal Today Web

CENTRE COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — A substance consort in Centre County has been punished over $16k for the modification of a miss in Jan. 2024.

38-year-old Nathan Kerstetter, of Milesburg, was killed on Jan. 17 patch he was sport on the backwards of a substance truck. The utility unsuccessful to attending an overhanging tree along the route patch championship up. Kerstetter succumbed to injuries at the scene, which an examination observed were forthright obligate trauma to the head.

The Negro was noticeable departed at the environs by Centre County Deputy Coroner J.D. Kubulak.

The substance pushcart that Kerstetter was sport on belonged to histrion Hill, Inc. They were afterward punished $16,131 by OSHA.

“The employer did not furnish job and a locate of job which were liberated from constituted hazards that were feat or probable to drive modification or earnest fleshly alteration to employees in that employees were unclothed to struck-by and caught between hazards when sport on the sport travel patch the squander assemblage container was operative in reverse.”

Osha said in the book for the citation.