A Suffield contractor and one of his employees owe guilty of slaughtering manslaughter on Friday after a worker was buried in a building location in Vernon in 2022.
Dennis Botticello, 69, from Suffield, and Glen Locke, 67, from Somers, confessed depending on the judge Kathleen E. McNamara on the Rockville Superior Court due to an indictment of a second degree after a release of the criminal justice in Connecticut.
Court files show that Dennis Slater, 56, from East Windsor, was an employee of Botticello Inc. when he was killed at a construction site in Vernon on July 22, 2022.
An investigation showed that “proper, legal security measures” were not available when an 8 -foot ditch had buried and buried Slater, according to court files.
Botticello has Botticello Inc., and Locke was the equipment operator near the slater at the time of the burial collapse, as court records.
“A joint investigation by the U.S. Ministry of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health and the Health Authority and the Vernon police stated that the accused violated Osha standards in the industry by not having the necessary safety equipment and other devices to prevent the caves of trench caves,” said the DCJ.
In 2015, Osha investigators identified four serious violations in connection with the delimitation of Botticello Inc. at a job site in Stafford.
Botticello and Locke are to be convicted in front of the Superior Court Rockville on May 16. Depending on five years, they are expected to receive a 10 -year prison, followed by three years of probation, said civil servants.
“The plea agreement enables every defendant to argue for a lower sentence,” said the DCJ.