A Suffolk County Superior Court judge in Boston last week sentenced contractor Kevin Otto, owner of the now-defunct Atlantic Drain Services, to two years in jail in connection to the death of two workers who were killed in a trench collapse more than three years ago in October 2016, reported WBZ CBS Boston. udge Mitchell Kaplan found that Otto and Atlantic Drain “knowingly and willfully” put the victims, Robert Higgins and Kelvin Mattocks, in extreme danger by not using required cave-in protection methods. Kaplan ordered Otto to serve his sentence for both counts of manslaughter concurrently, sentenced Otto to three years of probation and ruled that he can never employ anyone in a job that requires excavation.
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