STARKVILLE, Miss. (The Commercial Dispatch) — The owner of a contracting company of which two workers were killed in a trench collapse in Mississippi had previously been issued 27 federal citations for safety violations.
The Commercial Dispatch reports Shane Henderson was the president of the now-defunct Gilco Contracting when the Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited it in 2005 and 2008. Henderson is now the head of Tuscaloosa, Alabama-based Southern Civil Contracting.
Two of its employees were killed May 19 in a trench collapse in Starkville, Mississippi. It's unclear whether safety violations led to the fatal trench collapse.
OSHA is investigating but declined to comment. Henderson could not be reached for comment.