ATLANTIC ENVIRONMENTAL v. MALVEAUX

Record No. 1844-13-1.

762 S.E.2d 409 (2014)

63 Va. App. 656

ATLANTIC ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY v. Courtney M. MALVEAUX, Commissioner Virginia Department of Labor and Industry.

Court of Appeals of Virginia, Chesapeake.

September 2, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Leonard Vance for appellant.

Joshua E. Laws , Assistant Attorney General ( Mark R. Herring , Attorney General; Cynthia Hudson , Chief Deputy Attorney General; Kristina Perry Stoney , Senior Assistant Attorney General & Section Chief, on brief), for appellee.

Present: KELSEY, BEALES and DECKER, JJ.


KELSEY, Judge.

Atlantic Environmental Construction Company (AEC) appeals a judgment of the circuit court affirming citations proposed by the Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry against AEC for two workplace safety violations. AEC argues that the circuit court misapplied principles of respondeat superior by imputing to AEC its site supervisor's knowledge of the safety violations. We disagree and affirm.

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