{"id":2593,"date":"2017-12-29T14:02:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T19:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2017-12-30T15:02:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T20:02:46","slug":"5-die-tampa-electric-receives-osha-willful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2017\/12\/29\/5-die-tampa-electric-receives-osha-willful\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Prosecution After Willful OSHA Citations for 5 Deaths at Tampa Electric?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OSHAOn June 29, 2017, five workers were burned to death at Tampa Electric’s\u00a0Big Bend Power Station \u2014 \u00a0Michael McCort, 60, Christopher Irvin, 40; Frank Lee Jones, 55, Antonio Navarrete, 21, and Amando J. Perez, 56 \u2014 after management forced them to do a procedure that they knew was hazardous, probably just to save a few bucks. One other employee,\u00a0Gary Marine Jr, suffered serious burns.<\/p>\n

The workers were killed when they tried to clear hardened coal slag accumulating at the bottom of a 12-story tall boiler without shutting the boiler down first. Thousands of gallons of molten slag gushed from the boiler, shooting out of the tank and covering the workers.\u00a0Shutting down and restarting a boiler can cost utilities up to a quarter-million dollars.<\/p>\n

A similar incident had occurred two decades earlier, in 1997. No one was killed in that incident, but the utility changed its written procedures to prohibit clearing blockages while the boiler was operating.<\/p>\n

The Tampa Bay Times<\/a> wrote an excellent investigative piece on the tragedy last August, and I provided some additional analysis in a Confined Space post<\/a> shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, OSHA issued citations<\/a> related to the incident. Tampa Electric (TECO) was fined $139,424 which included two willful violations that were grouped together for one penalty, and two serious Personal Protective Equipment violations that were also grouped together. Gaffin Industrial Services, which employed Irvin and Jones, received two serious citations and a $21,548 penalty for five violations for failure to provide personal protective equipment that would have protected workers against burns.<\/p>\n

TECO\u00a0spokeswoman Cherie Jacobs, quoted in the Tampa Times<\/a>, said they “respectfully disagree with the suggestion we were willful or deliberately indifferent to the safety of workers\u201d and had not yet decided whether to contest the citations. The company has 15 days to decide whether to contest.<\/p>\n

TECO’s Terrible Workplace Safety History<\/h2>\n

Despite TECO’s objection to the “willful” citation, the Times has documented the utility’s sorry workplace safety history:<\/p>\n

In August, a\u00a0Times<\/i>\u00a0investigation<\/a>\u00a0found that Tampa Electric had experienced a near-identical accident at a different plant in 1997, and wrote guidelines banning the procedure that caused it. But those rules were abandoned sometime before the June accident, allowing the dangerous maintenance job to proceed.<\/p>\n

Over the last 20 years, more workers have died in Tampa Electric\u2019s power plants than in those run by any other Florida electric utility, the Times found. Tampa Electric has had 10 deaths; the next-highest company has had 3.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, TECO now states that it has permanently discontinued the practice that killed the workers, and Jacobs maintains that\u00a0\u201cWe are more focused on safety than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n

One would hope that’s true, but there’s not much evidence yet:<\/p>\n

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After the accident, Tampa Electric\u2019s then CEO Gordon Gillette told the\u00a0Times<\/i>\u00a0the company would not allow maintenance work with the boiler running until the OSHA investigation was finished.<\/p>\n

In late August, however, Tampa Electric\u2019s union said workers at Big Bend had drained water and hardened slag out of a tank onto the plant\u2019s floor while the boiler was still running. Tampa Electric acknowledged the work violated its policy, and said it planned to clarify its rules. Gillette retired Nov. 30.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Jacobs said the company had made the policy permanent.<\/p>\n

“Permanent.” For the third time.<\/p>\n

Criminal Prosecution?<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Needless to say, relatives and union representatives were not happy with the size of the fine.<\/p>\n

Navarrete\u2019s sister-in-law, Delfina Ramirez, said she hoped for a harsher penalty against the power company. \u201cI think TECO should face criminal charges,\u201d she said. \u201cThey are responsible for killing Marro and these other people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Retired union leader Rick Coronado said OSHA\u2019s punishment wasn\u2019t enough. \u201cIt amounts to about $30,000 a life,\u201d he said. \u201cNow we\u2019ve put a price on workers. I guess that\u2019s the going rate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, OSHA’s fines are based primarily on standards that were violated, not the number of workers injured or killed. In this case, however, it is not clear why the two willful violations against TECO were grouped into one citation, although OSHA’s decisions in these cases can often be based on perceived legal vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n

Of course, even if OSHA had issued two willful citations instead of one — essentially doubling the size of the citations against TECO — it still wouldn’t have made up for the loss of five lives in this preventable tragedy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere you have a culture that is not compliant and that disregards safety matters, that can be a criminal violation.\u201d — Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What can make a difference, however, is criminal prosecution. The Occupational Safety and Health Act allows for criminal prosecution if there there is a willful violation that led to the death of a worker — a situation that occurred here. OSHA must refer the case to the Department of Justice, which decides whether to pursue the case.<\/p>\n

I will expect Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta to aggressively support a criminal prosecution and strongly advocate at the Department of Justice given that this incident occurred in Acosta’s home state of Florida, and that he strongly supported criminal prosecutions at a recent Senate hearing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At that hearing, Acosta claimed to be \u201cvery much aware of the importance of vigorous prosecution when violations are willful or repeat\u201d and stated that \u201cWhere you have a culture that is not compliant and that disregards safety matters, that can be a criminal violation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Secretary Acosta, the families of these five workers, and employees working in similar hazardous conditions across the country are waiting to see if you follow through on your commitment. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Don’t disappoint them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On June 29, 2017, five workers were burned to death at Tampa Electric’s\u00a0Big Bend Power Station \u2014 \u00a0Michael McCort, 60, Christopher Irvin, 40; Frank Lee Jones, 55, Antonio Navarrete, 21, and Amando J. Perez, 56 \u2014 after management forced them to do a procedure that they knew was hazardous, probably just to save a few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[102,114,101,2,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alex-acosta","category-criminal-prosecution","category-enforcement","category-osha","category-penalties"],"yoast_head":"\nCriminal Prosecution After Willful OSHA Citations for 5 Deaths at Tampa Electric? - Confined Space<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Will the federal Government pursue criminal prosecutions after Tampa Electric receives willful OSHA citation for the deaths of five workers?\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2017\/12\/29\/5-die-tampa-electric-receives-osha-willful\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Criminal Prosecution After Willful OSHA Citations for 5 Deaths at Tampa Electric? 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