The move was announced Monday by the Business Integrity Commission, effective immediately.
“Sanitation Salvage had a long and undeniable track record of exploiting workers and endangering New Yorkers,” said Sean Campbell, president of Teamsters Local 813, in response. “We will partner with our union employers to make sure Sanitation Salvage’s former workers have a good job where they will get the respect they deserve.”
The city had suspended Sanitation Salvage’s license back in August following months of demands from local advocates and elected officials — and an audit by the BIC.
Investigators, at the time, cited the Bronx firm for 58 collisions, including one where an unlicensed worker drove into oncoming traffic.
The audit was ultimately prompted by the deaths of employee Mouctar Diallo — who was run over by a truck driven by co-worker Sean Spence in Nov. 2017 — and 72-year-old pedestrian Leon Clark, who was fatally struck in April 2018 by a truck that was also being steered by Spence.He initially lied to cops about Diallo’s death, reportedly claiming that he was a panhandler who had jumped out in front of the vehicle. While Spence was later barred from working in the industry, he never got charged with a crime.
“In the coming months, we will be working in the City Council to pass the strongest possible commercial waste zone policy to ensure that no company like Sanitation Salvage operates in our city again,” Campbell said, “and no worker is ever again treated like Mouctar Diallo was treated.”