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Court confirms ruling that Tarrytown violated labor laws in worker deaths

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Court confirms ruling that Tarrytown violated labor laws in worker deaths

TARRYTOWN – New York State’s top court affirmed a panel ruling that The Village of Tarrytown violated state labor law when two of its municipal employees went into a confined space where there was a sewer blockage and both men died of asphyxiation, a court ruled.

http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2015/January/28/Ttown_worker_death_CoA-28Jan15.html

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Did anyone expect a different outcome? There's a lesson to be learned here...

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Its not about the fine, its about the finding, which will be used against the village in any civil litigation from the families.

The lesson is ignorance of the law is no defense (particularly when DOL can prove you knew the law at some point in the past)

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