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JASPER, Tenn. Marion County government has sued a Chattanooga construction company over a new heath department building under construction. Records show a stop work order was issued by county officials in April, shortly after McBrayer Construction began work on the 660-thousand-dollar building in Jasper. Building inspectors claimed McBrayer didn't properly install structural supports in the concrete pad of the building and failed to install wire mesh in the pad as the architect's plans required. The company sued in July, claiming Marion County breached its contract and owed the company 180-thousand dollars for work already done. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports a lawyer for McBrayer didn't return phone calls seeking comment on Friday. Copyright 2006 Associated Press.
CONTRACTOR-GENERAL Greg Christie has written to the Director of Public Prosecutions seeking his advice on how to go about bringing criminal charges against public bodies which fail to comply with requisitions from the Office of the Contractor General for information. He was appearing before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) at Parliament yesterday, as he wrapped up his appearance before the House committee which is examining the contractor-general's report on the controversial Whitehouse hotel project and a forensic report on the project, which was ordered by then Prime Minister P J Patterson. Christie's letter to Kent Pantry, the DPP, dated September 28, 2006, and which was entered into the record of the PAC, read in part:
"One of the matters in respect of which I would like to seek your formal advice relates to the circumstances which would give rise to the commission of a criminal offence under Section 29 (a) & (b) of the Contractor-General's Act as well as the procedure which should be utilised by the Office of the Contractor General (OCG) to initiate formal proceedings under that section.
(CBS4) BOSTON A masonry contractor faces proposed fines totaling 119-thousand dollars from a scaffolding collapse in Boston last spring that killed three people.The U-S Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced the penalties against Walpole-based Bostonian Masonry on Friday.Federal officials cited the firm for eight alleged safety violations in the April third accident at the construction site for Emerson College's new dormitory and campus center. Two workers and a passing motorist were killed when a construction platform plunged 13 stories.The accident happened when bracing was being removed as the scaffolding was being dismantled. Investigators found there was nothing to prevent the tower and platform from tipping when the bracing was removed.There was no immediate comment from Bostonian Masonry.
A former Seattle police officer who resigned from the department two years ago to fight the war in Iraq died Tuesday after being in the country for just a few days. Maj. Guyton "Guy" Barattieri arrived in Iraq on Saturday for a contracting job. The 36-year-old worked as a patrol officer in the Seattle Police Department's South Precinct from March 2001 until August 2004. Barattieri was an Army Special Forces reservist who was about to be promoted, his mother said. "He was the best of the best," Barbara Barattieri said over the phone Wednesday from her home in Cincinnati. "We are just having a hard time dealing with this. He was one of these guys this could never happen to." After graduating from West Point in 1992, Barattieri served in numerous positions in the Army, his mother said.
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