Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor announced proposed fines against a roofing contractor and a residential home builder for an incident last June after an Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigator witnessed employees installing roofing membrane on the roofs of garages without fall protection.
In the Jan. 4 Labor Dept. news release, OSHA cited All Phase Roofing of Lake Park, Fla., for failing to provide fall protection for workers while working on the attached garages in a development in Boca Raton, Fla., about 30 minutes south of West Palm Beach.