HANSON, Mass. — The operator of three Massachusetts-based contracting companies is to blame for the death of a worker who was crushed in a foundation collapse at a home on the South Shore earlier this year, federal investigators announced Friday.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that Woburn employer Aleckssandro Tomaz Pereira could have prevented an employee from suffering fatal injuries in February 2024 when part of a foundation broke and fell on the worker in a 5-to-6-foot-deep trench beneath the foundation of a Hanson home, according to United States Department of Labor.
Pereira, who operates waterproofing contracting companies Boston Concrete Corp LLC, VMT Contractor LLC, and Boston Concrete and Remodeling LLC, exposed employees to cave-in, caught-between and structural collapse hazards by failing to protect the trench and the building foundation against collapse, OSHA investigators said.
Pereira instructed the worker to enter the unprotected trench to prepare a foundation …