One of the most important people on a construction job is the field supervisor. They are responsible for direct relations with the employees who are performing the fieldwork. One of Bay Harbour Electric’s supervisors was a real piece of work, according to a court complaint filed in Butler County, Pennsylvania. The Bay Harbour Electric supervisor was named Ellwyn Reynolds. He was known to be "malicious and of a violent nature." He also "had been criminally charged on a number of occasions with disorderly conduct." Reynolds’ supervisors at Bay Harbour Electric knew he was "confrontational, ill tempered and [that he] frequently engaged in fighting."

Nonetheless, Bay Harbour Electric had "failed to discipline or discharge" Reynolds, even though they recognized his conduct as a major infraction of company policy. Bay Harbour Electric also failed to protect other employees from Reynolds’s violent conduct, which rendered him incompetent as a supervisor.

With a loose cannon like Reynolds at Bay Harbour Electric, trouble was bound to result. The inevitable confrontation took place at a restaurant, during diner, after a day’s work by Bay Harbour Electric at the Seven Fields project in Butler County, Pennsylvania. For no foreseeable reason, Ellwyn Reynolds abruptly began slugging another Bay Harbour Electric employee, Clifford Bennett during their evening meal. The restaurant furniture went flying as Reynolds attacked Bennett.

According to his court suit, Bennett suffered severe and serious personal injuries and damages. His civil complaint charged that Bay Harbour Electric knew about Reynolds’s violent nature, but kept him on as a supervisor anyway and did not take steps to protect other Bay Harbour Electric employees from Reynolds’ outbursts.

Bennett sought $25,000 in damages from Bay Harbour Electric after his beating at the hands of Reynolds. Bay Harbour Electric eventually paid a settlement to Bennett. (Case #10585)

David M. Allen suffered a severe electrical shock at the Clarion County Prison and his civil suit charged that Bay Harbour Electric was responsible for his injuries. His complaint claimed that Bay Harbour Electric used the wrong type of electrical ground fault receptacle during their construction of the electrical wiring of the prison. His suit charged Bay Harbour Electric with "failure to follow Local, State and Federal codes in the installation of the electrical outlets; failure to properly supervise their employees ... failure to provide watertight housing for said electrical units; failure to inspect the work..." He also charged Bay Harbour Electric with "failure to use ordinary and reasonable care in the installation [of the electrical system] ... failure to promptly fix the problems ... [and] failure to perform the work according to the ordinary and reasonable standards of the [electrical] profession." Allen sought more than $25,000 in damages from Bay Harbour Electric and the other parties.

Bay Harbour Electric, for their part, claimed that the other parties to the case, namely the construction project designers, were at fault for failing to designate the correct type of electrical receptacle for Bay Harbour Electric to install. (Case #1469CA)

In a case filed with the National Labor Relations Board in May 2001, Chris Watkins charged that Bay Harbour had been engaging in unfair labor practices. The lawsuit claims Bay Harbour Electric had been interfering with, restraining and coercing employees in the exercise of rights guaranteed in Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act and that the company had "been discriminating in regard to the hire or tenure or terms or conditions of employment of its employees..." (Case #6-CA-32166)

The Regional Cancer Center also had problems with Bay Harbour Electric. Court records show that the Regional Cancer Center filed a pleading for a writ of summons against the defendants Bay Harbour Electric, North Coast Building and others on December 18, 2000. (Case #14332-00)

In this court suit, Bay Harbour Electric agreed to buy various pieces of equipment and tools from M&K Electrical Company. Bay Harbour Electric said that they paid $29,700 down and agreed to pay monthly installments of $877. However, when Bay Harbour Electric received a shipment of the promised equipment, they claimed that some of the tools were damaged. Bay Harbour Electric went to court in an effort to avoid paying $10,500 of that equipment contract.

M&K Electrical Company strongly contested Bay Harbour Electric’s assertions. Mark J. Leach, a M&K representative, submitted an affidavit to the court, stating that Bay Harbour Electric had thoroughly and carefully inspected all of the goods and accepted them upon delivery, without objection. (Case #11439-1999)

Bay Harbour Electric has hauled others into court over small debts. This complaint was filed by Bay Harbour over the grand sum of $1,888 as stated in the original court suit. This case is an example of Bay Harbour wasting time and money to go after an individual for a very small amount of money. (Case #N/A)

In this case which was filed in May 1991, Bay Harbour Electric sued this poor fellow over a $16,000 note, according to court documents. (Case #75-J-1991)

In this case, Edinboro University rejected Bay Harbour Electric’s low bid for electrical work, after discovering that Bay Harbour Electric’s filings regarding minority and women hiring was "unresponsive." Bay Harbour Electric’s response was to sue. But the court ruled against Bay Harbour Electric, stating that Bay Harbour Electric had failed to include an actual bid quote from one of their alleged women contractors and therefore was properly rejected. (Case #209-MD-1995)

The county rejected Bay Harbour Electric’s bid. Yet again, Bay Harbour Electric sued. The court filed against Bay Harbour Electric, finding that the county had properly refused Bay Harbour Electric’s bid, because Bay Harbour Electric had responded with "hostility and lack of cooperation" to the County’s requests for information. (Mo. No. 427)

In this case, Lyle Lee sued Bay Harbour Electric when he was severely injured in an accident involving Alan Hartley, who was driving a Bay Harbour Electric company truck, as stated in court records. He sought over $10,000 for his medical bills, damages, as well as pain and suffering. (Case #104-26-1988)

Dolak and Anthony have faced court complaints over charges of money owed. The First National Bank of Pennsylvania sued them in Erie County case to collect a debt of $210,000, according to court documents. (Case #1353-J-1989DSB)

Louis Kosan was a welder who worked on the Longfellow School renovation. His job was to cut pipe in the poorly lit basement of the building. His court complaint states that Bay Harbour Electric, Inc. was responsible for the temporary lighting on this construction job. While trying to work in the poor lighting, he was severely injured. His court suit charges that Bay Harbour "...was responsible for temporary lighting at the Longfellow School Project, and provided insufficient temporary lighting in the area in which the plaintiff was working, thereby creating a dangerous condition which resulted in the accident..."