STUART — Following an inspection prompted by a fatal car crash, the construction company working on a Cove Road improvement project has been cited for four “serious violations” by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

But the alleged violations by Sheltra and Son Construction Co. of Indiantown were not the cause of the Aug. 4 accident in which three teenagers were killed when a Jeep Grand Cherokee slammed into a John Deere front-end loader, according to the OSHA report.
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STUART — Attorneys in a wrongful death lawsuit filed shortly after the Aug. 4 Cove Road collision that killed three teenagers want to question staff at BJ’s Sports Bar and Grill in Stuart on duty the evening leading up to the late night crash.

Passengers Connor W. Graver, 16, Christopher H. Briglio, 18, and driver Nicholas P. Coady, also 18, died Aug. 4 after their Jeep slammed into a front end loader on Southeast Cove Road that was working as part of a road construction project in the area south of Stuart.

Graver’s parents, on behalf of their son Conner, were the first to sue Sheltra & Son Construction Co., claiming the Indiantown company failed to safely maintain the area where the crash occurred.
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