{"id":"DUT-FED-069","kind":"duty","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States (Colorado)","state":"","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Region 8 (Denver Area Office; Area Director Amanda Kupper)","authority":"29 U.S.C. 654(a)(1), 658, 666","instrument":"News release, US Department of Labor cites insurance agency for exposing workers to coronavirus at Denver location where employee died with COVID-19 (Fred Loya Insurance Agency Inc.; Inspection No. 1528139; citation Oct. 1, 2021)","title":"US Department of Labor cites insurance agency for exposing workers to coronavirus at Denver location where employee died with COVID-19","dateIssued":"2021-10-07","effective":"2021-10-01","end":"contested","startDate":"2021-10-01","endDate":"","quarters":["2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["EMP"],"addressees":["the cited employer; precedential for office employers"],"clause":"A federal workplace health investigation found that an auto insurance company ignored coronavirus safety requirements and allowed others displaying symptoms to work at the same Denver location where an employee died with COVID-19.... [OSHA] initiated an investigation on April 21, 2021, and found Fred Loya Insurance Agency Inc. did not safely distance employees, failed to implement a health and safety plan and allowed symptomatic workers to remain on site. The company faces $23,406 in proposed penalties.","enforcement":"$23,406 proposed","functions":[],"notes":"A general duty clause citation (row \u0027Fred Loya DENVER CO 1528139 10/1/2021 $23,406 OSH ACT of 1970 Section (5)(a)(1)\u0027 in Ex. AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION-033) against an insurance agency, an office employer outside health care and food processing, for the 2021Q2 exposures: distancing, a written health and safety plan and exclusion of symptomatic workers were the required abatement.","sourceUrl":"https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/region8/10072021","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20211008021230/https://www.osha.gov/news/newsreleases/region8/10072021","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":135278,"grade":"primary","character":"enforcement_record","description":"","collection":"DUT-FED","url":"/library/DUT-FED-069","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-FED-069","citation":"Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Region 8 (Denver Area Office; Area Director Amanda Kupper), News release, US Department of Labor cites insurance agency for exposing workers to coronavirus at Denver location where employee died with COVID-19 (Fred Loya Insurance Agency Inc.; Inspection No. 1528139; citation Oct. 1, 2021) (Oct. 7, 2021) (Ex. DUT-FED-069)","stateName":"","related":["AGY-FED-LABOR-IMMIGRATION-033"]}