Two workers died early Wednesday morning after they fell when scaffolding gave way on a construction site near Walt Disney World (Jacob Langston)

Federal authorities fined two construction companies $157,792 on Wednesday after two workers fell to their deaths from scaffolding at a hotel near Disney World in August.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined PCL Construction Services Inc. $144,532 and Universal Engineering Sciences $13,260 for violations connected to the fatalities that happened while work was being done on the JW Marriott Hotel at Bonnet Creek in Orlando. The hotel, which is under construction, is at the 14900 block of Chelonia Parkway.

The agency said workers were pouring concrete on the building’s seventh floor when the support structure collapsed. Loreno Zavala, 34, and Jerry Bell, 46, were killed.

Two other workers were on the scaffold as well. A third worker fell, but hung on and climbed to safety. The fourth was not injured, Orange County fire rescue officials said at the time.

OSHA said contractors failed to “inspect formwork, shoring, working decks and scaffolds properly.”

“Using specified drawings and shoring plans may have prevented these fatalities,” OSHA Tampa area office Director Les Grove said in a statement.

PCL was given the maximum citation allowed by law for failing to properly brace the scaffolding.

Both companies are allowed to appeal the fines. PCL has its headquarters in Edmonton, Canada, and Universal Engineering is based in Orlando.

Neither company could be reached for comment.

Zavala and Bell were employed by Puleo’s Concrete Inc. and C&C Pumping Services Inc., which received hazard alert letters.

The hotel is set open in early 2020.

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