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Osha Fines Pennsylvania Contractor $18K After Fatal Balcony Collapse In Sea Isle City

Federal inspectors have levied $18,082 in fines against a Bucks County, PA, contracting company after a balcony collapse that killed a worker in Sea Isle City earlier this year.

Jose Pereira, 43, of Philadelphia, was working on a seventh-floor balcony on the Spinnaker Condominium complex’s south tower on Feb. 24 when an eighth-floor balcony collapsed on top of him, pinning him under the concrete slab.

OSHA officials have cited Ferguson Contracting Inc. of Yardley, PA, for five different violations.

OSHA citation

OSHA

Sea Isle City balcony collapse.

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Crews were re-cementing balconies at the time of the collapse.

Pereira left behind a wife and three daughters.

Ferguson Contracting has an informal conference with OSHA scheduled in September, according to Lenore Uddyback-Fortson, regional OSHA director.

The cause of the collapse remains under investigation.

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