A Colorado professional has pleaded guilty to murder for the death of an staffmember who was eliminated in a trench collapse in 2021.
Peter Dillon, 54, pleaded guilty August 3, 2023, after being charged January 26 with negligent murder. The previous owner of A4S Construction of Vail was charged following the death of worker Marlon Alfredo Diaz, 23, who was settingup a drain line November 16, 2021, at a property building website neglecting the Breckenridge Ski Resort. Two other employees were likewise in the trench however were able to escape unscathed.
Inspectors with the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration figuredout there was insufficient cave-in security, amongst other offenses. On December 20, 2021, OSHA inspectors likewise observed a comparable offense of employees on the exactsame buildingandconstruction website in a area of a trench that did not have cave-in security.
“Between August and December 2021, the company consistently appointed employees to work inside trenches that were not safeguarded from cave-ins by an sufficient protective system,” according to OSHA’s citation released May 13, 2022.
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