The Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined a Vero Beach, Florida-based drainpipe cleaning and maintenance company $16,131 for alleged safety lapses at a worksite where a worker was killed in June 2024.
The agency said Thursday its investigation of Southeast Services of the Treasure Coast Inc. found that during the cleaning of a drainpipe at a Port St. Lucie, Florida, worksite, the pipe’s pressurized plug became over-inflated, causing an explosion so powerful that it ejected one worker 15 feet from the storm drain, resulting in his death…