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.

Sea Isle City balcony collapse.
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Jon Craig

08/31/2023 1:31 p.m.

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.

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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