Drain service company has long history of safety violations
The company at the center of Friday’s fatal water line break in Boston’s South End has a lengthy history of troubling safety violations, including citations for workers lacking oxygen underground and for conditions that could lead to cave-ins, federal records show.
Atlantic Drain Service Co. of Roslindale, which advertises as one of Boston’s “most successful and respected drain cleaning companies,” faces tens of thousands of dollars of unpaid fines for violations reaching back to at least 2012, according to Occupational Safety and Health Administration records and an agency spokesman.
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