{"id":824084,"date":"2025-02-03T10:13:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T16:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/contractor-fined-after-diver-dies-on-north-carolina-bridge-project\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T10:13:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T16:13:33","slug":"contractor-fined-after-diver-dies-on-north-carolina-bridge-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/contractor-fined-after-diver-dies-on-north-carolina-bridge-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Contractor Fined After Diver Dies on North Carolina Bridge Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content-body-15711682\">\n<p>The death of a 47-year-old worker on a bridge project in  North Carolina was a \u201cpreventable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equipmentworld.com\/construction-equipment\/heavy-equipment\/dozers\/article\/15711357\/details-released-in-dozer-operators-death-at-sc-power-plant\" target=\"_blank\">fatality<\/a>,\u201d and the construction company that employed him faces proposed penalties of $40,000, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equipmentworld.com\/regulations\/safety-compliance\/article\/15707920\/oshas-top-10-construction-violations-in-2024\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The diver was part of a four-man dive team employed by Maryland-based  Coastal Gunite Construction Company to work on the William B. Umstead Bridge  over Croatan Sound, which connects Manns Harbor and Fort Raleigh City. <\/p>\n<p>The bridge, locally known as Old Manns Harbor Bridge, was temporarily  closed June 3 as part of a $33 million project to repair all 313  concrete spans and replace each of the 170 expansion joints. The restoration of  the 69-year-old bridge is set to be completed in late 2026.<\/p>\n<p>On June 25, the diver, during the first day on the job,  dove about 19 feet underwater from a boat to conduct a test but was almost  immediately removed by team members after becoming unresponsive. Workers  performed CPR before emergency medical services arrived, but the diver could  not be revived.<\/p>\n<p>OSHA cited Coastal Gunite Construction with four serious  violations and proposed the legal maximum of $40,329 in penalties. The full  list of violations include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not maintaining a safe practices manual at the worksite to  address the safety and health of employees who were engaged in diving  operations<\/li>\n<li>Not providing a first aid kit at the dive location<\/li>\n<li>Not maintaining an American Red Cross Standard first aid  handbook or equivalent and a bag-type manual resuscitator with transparent mask  and tubing<\/li>\n<li>Not assessing the fitness of the diver engaged in diving  operations<\/li>\n<li>Exposing employees performing diving operations to possible  air contaminants in that the air intake was in close proximity to the  compressor exhaust<\/li>\n<li>Not testing the Rolair compressor systems for air purity  for over 6 months<\/li>\n<li>Supplying air to divers that had not been tested at least  annually to 1.5 times the air hose working pressure<\/li>\n<li>Not maintaining current CPR or first-aid training for all  dive-team members<\/li>\n<li>Not maintaining an emergency aid list at the worksite<\/li>\n<li>Not recording or maintaining key information on diving  operations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Coastal Gunite Construction has been in business since 1983  and offers structural shotcrete services through offices in Maryland, North  Carolina, Tennessee, and Florida.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Ben Thorpe<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.equipmentworld.com\/roadbuilding\/article\/15711682\/contractor-fined-for-diver-death-in-north-carolina\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of a 47-year-old worker on a bridge project in North Carolina was a \u201cpreventable fatality,\u201d and the construction company that employed him faces proposed penalties of $40,000, according to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The diver was part of a four-man dive team employed by Maryland-based Coastal Gunite Construction Company to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":824085,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26535,22853],"tags":[17637,11323],"class_list":{"0":"post-824084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-contractor","8":"category-fined","9":"tag-contractor","10":"tag-fined"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}