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The approximately 18-acre Monroe Commons site in Monroe, N.Y., is planned for a four-story, 408,000-sq-ft mixed-use development. OSHA has proposed $648,094 in penalties against six contractors over alleged excavation hazards at the project.

Federal safety regulators have proposed $648,000 in penalties against six contractors over alleged hazards at an excavation reaching 75 ft deep on a mixed-use project in Monroe, N.Y..

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Oct. 13 that it issued 23 serious and five willful citations to general contractor Advanced Plan and Build LLC and five subcontractors working on Monroe Commons, an approximately 408,000-sq-ft commercial development in Orange County, about 50 miles north of New York City.

OSHA opened its investigation after receiving an allegation that workers were exposed to struck-by and collapse hazards while working below a steep embankment.…