Union officials claim that it was only a matter of time before someone was seriously injured or killed at the Bee Street construction site where 36-year-old Elvin Monzon-Guzman died last week. The subcontractor that Monzon-Guzman was working for was fined $16,500 by the state Department of Labor for payroll and workers’ compensation violations just days before the fatal accident, agency staff said. On May 7, shortly after work resumed because some of the problems were rectified, Monzon-Guzman, of Lynn, Mass., was struck by a truss that was being moved as part of the construction project on Bee Street, next to the Flats 390 apartment complex, police said. A.R. Building Company officials did not respond to a request for comment. Azedo confirmed that some of the subcontractors had received stop-work orders related to payroll and other issues, but he felt the Department of Labor issued the orders because they needed time to sort out the problems.
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