OSHA achieves criminal convictions in two states. (OSHA).(Brief Article)

Criminal convictions for violations of workplace safety rules are rare, but there were two such cases in July.

In Michigan, a state with its own OSHA program, the J.A. Morrin Concrete Construction Co. of Toledo, Ohio, and company foreman Jim Morrin Jr. pled guilty to criminal charges tied to the Aug. 11, 2000, death of contractor employee Robert Sorge. The company contracted Sylvester Material Co. to deliver gravel to a strip mall construction site in Dundee, Mich., where a 7,600-volt energized power line ran across the east end of the site. Morrin directed several grav