A New Jersey contractor and its principal recently pleaded guilty to federal charges of willfully violating OSHA regulations over the 2017 death of a worker at a Poughkeepsie, N.Y. construction site. Prosecutors say the company’s operations manager ignored an engineer’s approved plan, leading to a fatal retaining wall collapse.
Hackensack, N.J.-based builder OneKey, the general contractor on an apartment building project at the site, faces a fine of up to $500,000. Its operations manager, 57-year-old Finbar O’Neill of Paramus, N.J., faces up to six months in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
