The U.S. Occupational Safety Administration has cited Southborough, Mass.-based utility company Eversource Energy Service Co. with five alleged serious and willful violations it said resulted in a worker’s death last year. The agency has proposed $333,560 in penalties related to the accident.
Eversource workers were performing maintenance on electrical equipment in an underground electrical vault in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood on July 12, 2022, when an arc flash and blast occurred, severely burning an employee, OSHA said in its Jan. 12 announcement of the proposed fines.