Officials with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration have proposed citations totaling $313,500 against three companies involved in a deadly crane collapse at a high-rise residential-building site March 15 on East 51st Street in New York City, where six workers and a bystander died under the crush of a falling tower crane.
"Ultimately, the crane collapse was a failure to follow basic, but essential, construction safety processes," says Richard Mendelson, OSHA's Manhattan area director, in a statement issued Sept. 15.