Welcome to CPR's first- and only-of-its-kind Crimes Against Workers Database. Here you’ll find detailed information about state criminal cases and grassroots advocacy campaigns against employers responsible for crimes against workers – leaving them dead, maimed, seriously injured or sick, or robbing them of some or all of their paychecks. You'll also find links to Google Drive folders with source materials. Search using the tools below.
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Wage Theft | New York | January 1, 2015
An investigation into Lintech Electric found that over the course of three years (January 2015 to September 2018), Lintech disregarded the prevailing wage rate and underpaid its employees by almost $900,000 on multiple New York City Housing Authority projects in all five New York City boroughs. For example, the applicable prevailing wage rate for an […]
Wall/Building Collapse | New York | November 28, 2014
Delfino died from asphyxiation when he was crushed by a concrete ceiling that collapsed on him during demolition of a Ford auto dealership. The work permits for construction of the dealership had expired. In 2013, the NY Buildings Department had issued two violations to Formica at this site.
Trench Collapse | New Jersey | October 1, 2014
Two workers, Oscar Portillo and Selvin Zelaya, were killed while digging a trench around the foundation of a home on Rockaway Valley Road in Boonton Township. The workers were installing a French drain system. One side of the trench was supported by the house foundation but the other side was not properly shored up. The […]
Wage Theft | California | September 15, 2014
Abraham/Sanchez Corporation and Abraham Rest Home Inc. committed wage theft against at least 56 workers at care homes in Contra Costa County. Investigations began in 2012 and 2013 following complaints made to the U.S. Department of Labor and the California Department of Industrial Relations regarding labor practices at several care homes. In November 2013, the […]
Fall | Missouri | July 24, 2014
DNRB Inc. — doing business as Fastrack Erectors — was a subcontractor in the construction of a 300,000-square-foot warehouse in Kansas City, Missouri. Eric Roach, the victim, was working on the roof of the warehouse without any fall protection gear. No fall protection equipment was provided by the company, and the a the foremen failed […]
Electrocution | California | July 17, 2014
Pohl and Shetley were hanging up a banner at the Mission Viejo High School football stadium when they were eletrocuted. Thomas Blythe, the company’s President and the Vice President of the school’s booster club, was on site and had directed the two employees to hang the banner. Pohl was standing on scaffolding with electrical lines […]
Caught in Machine | Washington | July 7, 2014
Bradley Hogue died on the second day of his job after suffering blunt force injuries when he fell into an auger that was being used to distribute bark. The company had no prior violations that could be shown because there had been no safety complaints since 2008 and no state inspections for 6 years prior […]
Caught in Machine | Michigan | June 27, 2014
Scharenbroch was crushed and killed while cleaning an injection molding machine when someone started the machine while he was inside. The company had past citations for the same violations and was on MIOSHA’s severe perpretators list prior to this incident.
Fall | California | May 30, 2014
Powell and Hodgson were killed when they fell 80 feet from a crane. Mark Robert Powell (superintendent and father of Marcus Powell, deceased), was using a crane to hoist the two deceased workers into the air to inspect and repair a broken cable on another crane. According to Cal/OSHA, the rigging on their crane-hoisted platform […]