The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Franklin County Construction LLC – based in New Haven, Mo. – after an employee suffered fatal fall injuries when a roof truss collapsed.
The National Roofing Contractors Association will offer a CERTA train-the-trainer authorization class in Nashville during NRCA's 132nd Annual Convention and the 2019 International Roofing Expo.
As with all U.S. mandatory safety and health regulations or independent recommended guidelines, they must eventually change focus and evolve scope with changing times and design developments. So it is with Mobile Elevating Work Platforms (MEWP), formerly known as Aerial Work Platforms (AWP).
One of the largest roofing contractors in the U.S. and a subcontractor face up to a total of $147,998 in penalties after an OSHA inspection found employees were exposed to dangerous fall hazards at a Colorado job site.
The OSHA Training Institute Education Center at Chabot-Las Positas Community College District has released a top 10 list of the most frequently cited OSHA standards in 2018.
There were 43 fewer workplace fatalities in 2017 than the previous year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries in 2017 report.
The U.S. Dept. of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is staying busy in Florida and has cited another company for “repeatedly exposing employees to fall hazards.”
The crane was lifting shingles to the steep roof of the two-story home when it toppled. The owners were not home and no one was injured but the roofing contractors faced a unique challenge — unlike any it had dealt with since the Orlando-Edgewater firm’s founding more than 40 years ago.
