The owner of a New York-based roofing firm pled guilty in federal court to willfully violating Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations that resulted in the death of an employee.
Damian Williams, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Jose Lema, AKA Jose Lema Mizhirumbay, founder and principal of ALJ Home Improvement Inc., entered a guilty plea before U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith C. McCarthy.