During NYC Dept. of Buildings' three-month safety sweep, inspectors also issued more than 3,600 violations to contractors and site safety professionals for failing to keep sites safe.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed fines totaling $86,658 for five contractors involved with the Florida International University pedestrian-bridge project that suffered a catastrophic collapse on March 15, killing six.
Three contractors have been hit with $882,000 in fines and 24 citations from the Alaska Dept. of Labor for their roles in a safety-related incident last September on a project for Anchorage Municipal Light and Power.
