PARTA Subcontractor Appealing Citations Related to Worker's Death
Lockhart Concrete Co. employee died March 27 after accident at construction site for PARTA's Kent Central Gateway transit center.
An Akron company is appealing two workplace-safety citations it was issued in connection to the March 2012 death of one its employees at the construction site for PARTA's Kent Central Gateway transit center. Lockhart Concrete Co. worker Russell Hirschfelt, 49, of Barberton, was walking between a stack of concrete panels and the rear of a 2006 Caterpillar excavator just before 11 a.m. March 27 when the excavator moved and pinned him between the machine and concrete. Hirschfelt died that evening at Akron City Hospital due to injuries sustained in the accident. Lockhart Concrete is appealing the two citations it received for “serious” violations from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, according to …
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