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$2 Million Fine For NJ's 'Most Flagrant' OSHA Violator Upheld By Judge

Jerry DeMarco
03/10/2022 1:50 p.m.

A Bergen County framing contractor dubbed New Jersey’s "most flagrant violator" of federal workplace safety laws the past decade must pay $2 million in back fines to the government, an administrative law judge has ruled.

Juan Quevedo-Garcia, 42, of Palisades Park "deliberately failed to pay the fines and displayed a total disregard for the safety of his workers and for the law," Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Doug Parker said.

In doing so, he "continually put workers at risk of serious injuries or worse" at four different job sites in Bergen County, a federal complaint charges.

Quevedo-Garcia had already racked up more than $700,000 in unpaid penalties to OSHA when he dissolved Frame Q LLC and continued doing business under a similar name, authorities said on Thursday, March 10. ... A series of inspections followed that uncovered a string of violations -- and produced a series of substantial fines.

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