A septic service company in Maine that employed two workers who died on the job Sept. 27 faces about $17,000 in fines for alleged safety violations, according to seacostonline.com. Winfield Studley, 58, and Richard Kemp, 70, died when they were overcome by hydrogen sulfide gas after entering a septic tank at a hotel in Kennebunkport, Maine.
Following an Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation, Stevens Electric & Pump Service, of Monmouth, Maine, is being cited for failure to ventilate the area where the men were working, failure to test the air quality before the men went in the tank, and failure
