The state has issued an initial fault-finding report and fined ERI, Inc. $91,500 for issues contributing to a workplace accident in April in which two men fell to their deaths at a radio tower construction site in northeast Tippecanoe County.
The Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration's report was published Sept. 14 and included four knowing violations with fines of $21,000 each and five serious violations with fines of $1,500 each.
Tom Silliman, president of ERI, Inc. said Monday that some of IOSHA's initial findings were incorrect and the report is in the process of being revised -- with a new one due out in the next week. Silliman said he could not comment on the findings until the final determinations have been made.
On the morning of April 13 two men -- Ernesto Garcia, 29, of Laredo, Texas, and Paul Aliff III, 32, of Mesquite, Texas -- fell from a height of about 340 feet while working to install a segment of a radio tower near Colburn. The 500-foot-tall tower was being built for WASK radio group and has since been completed.
Police at the time said Garcia and Aliff were wearing safety cables, but the tower piece and the machine used to install it were involved in the fall, too.
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The Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration's report was published Sept. 14 and included four knowing violations with fines of $21,000 each and five serious violations with fines of $1,500 each.
Tom Silliman, president of ERI, Inc. said Monday that some of IOSHA's initial findings were incorrect and the report is in the process of being revised -- with a new one due out in the next week. Silliman said he could not comment on the findings until the final determinations have been made.
On the morning of April 13 two men -- Ernesto Garcia, 29, of Laredo, Texas, and Paul Aliff III, 32, of Mesquite, Texas -- fell from a height of about 340 feet while working to install a segment of a radio tower near Colburn. The 500-foot-tall tower was being built for WASK radio group and has since been completed.
Police at the time said Garcia and Aliff were wearing safety cables, but the tower piece and the machine used to install it were involved in the fall, too.
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