Labor & Employment Law Daily Wrap Up, OSHA NEWS—Business owner who lied under oath about fatal workplace accident sentenced to 18 months, (Jan 6, 2025)
Organizations Mentioned:Contract Framing Builders Inc.
By Brandi O. Brown, J.D.
He was also ordered to pay $2.8M in restitution.
The Department of Labor announced that in December, a federal district court in Massachusetts sentenced a construction company owner to 18 months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for several crimes, including making false statements to the federal government when he told a federal investigator that a worker who died as part of a 2021 workplace incident did not work for him. The owner of Contract Framing Builders Inc. was also ordered to pay $2,824,577 in restitution to the United States.
“When employers make false statements to OSHA investigators to cover up unsafe practices, they leave employees exposed to workplace injuries and deaths,” said Acting Regional Administrator Jeffrey Erskine in Boston.
The case is No. 22-CR-10148.
Companies: Contract Framing Builders Inc.
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