Recklessly irresponsible Cleveland demo contractor’s safety violations endangered walkers and drivers

CLEVELAND, OH – The money it would have cost William Baumann to ensure he and his employees obeyed laws that protected the public and his workers on his $500,000 contract with the City of Cleveland would have spared him the emotional angst he’s going to experience when he reads these words. But this irresponsible demolition contractor’s public safety-violating tactics to keep the “fencing and barricading” dollars in his pockets is the reason city officials were alerted about how Baumann “daily” threatened public safety when he demolished 10101 Woodland Avenue without barricading the sidewalk. From the beginning of the asbestos remediation…