On his first day working for Trigon Inc., Andrew Ross, 29, never made it home. Ross fell to his death from a 300 - foot communication tower. The Iowa Occupational Safety and Health bureau said he hadn't had proper training and was not wearing fall protection equipment. A Benton County jury convicted the company and its president of violating state safety rules in Ross' death. It was the first criminal case in Iowa in which a company was prosecuted for willful violation of OSHA laws causing death. Trigon and its president, Karl Thompson, were each found guilty of two counts of willful […]
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