UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. PITT-DES MOINES, INC., Defendant-Appellant

FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

During construction of the U.S. Postal Service’s (“USPS”) General Mail Facility on West Polk Street in Chicago (the “post office project”), part of the steel structure collapsed, killing two ironworkers. Following an investigation by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”), a federal grand jury indicted Pitt-Des Moines, Inc. (“PDM”), the steel erection subcontractor on the project, for willfully violating provisions of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (the “Act”) resulting in the two deaths. A jury found PDM guilty, and it was fined $1,000,000 and…