The company that owns the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs was issued over $4,000 in citations last month by labor regulators who alleged that the club’s employees failed to properly secure a bounce house last August when wind swept the inflatable away, killing a child and injuring another.

The citations issued Jan. 31 come alongside a negligence lawsuit filed by the family of the 5-year-old who died, Declan Hicks, against the Waldorf-based minor league baseball team and the manufacturer of the bounce house.

The Maryland Department of Labor released the preliminary citations last week in response to a public records request from The Baltimore Sun but had not released its full investigative file, which was also requested.

Read the full story on the Baltimore Sun.

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