The victim was performing welding work on a fuel truck when the explosion occurred.
A Harrison Township police car sits in the front yard of Timberlane Services on June 15, 2022, following the fatal workplace accident.The family of a man killed in an explosion that blew him through the roof of a Gloucester County business as he performed welding work on an oil truck has filed a lawsuit against his employer and others.
OSHA levied more than $38,000 in fines against Timberlane last year over the incident, finding willful violations of safety precautions regarding welding, failures to notify employees about hazardous chemicals in the workplace and the absence of a workplace hazard communication program. An administrative law judge signed off on the agreement in March and Timberlane has addressed the issues cited, an OSHA spokeswoman confirmed. Once the penalty is paid, the case will be closed, the spokeswoman said.
In addition to Timberlane and its owner, the suit names Taylor Oil Company Inc., owner of the truck, as a defendant, along with an unnamed Philadelphia-based garage that was allegedly supposed to empty the fuel tank prior to the vehicle being taken to Timberlane.The suit described multiple injuries Cheeseman suffered in the blast, which left his body 25 to 30 feet from where he had been working.
“Defendant Timberlane’s actions, which caused Mr. Cheeseman’s death, are not a simple fact of industrial life and are outside the purview of the conditions that the New Jersey Legislature intended to immunize under the Worker’s Compensation bar,” the suit states.
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