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(AP) - The state Occupational Safety and Health
Division has fined the company that employed two workers who were swept away and died in St. Paul's storm sewers during a heavy
downpour last summer.

      OSHA says Lametti & Sons committed five safety violations, and
fined them $106,000. A spokesman for the Hugo-based company denied
that officials intentionally disregarded employee safety.

      Workers Dave Yasis and Joe Harlow were working in a sewer shaft
in late July when a sudden downpour swamped the sewer and swept
their bodies into the Mississippi River, where they were later
found.

      The company has contested OSHA's findings, and next up is a
conference between the company and the agency to try to reach a
settlement.
      

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downpour last summer.

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