Due to its history including 19 inspections and 42 citations, Florida Roofing Experts Inc. in Jacksonville, Fla. faces more than $1 million in penalties after exposing employees to fall hazards.
OSHA cited Apex Roofing and Restoration and WW Restoration in Alabama after investigating the death of a 15-year-old worker who fell to his death in July.
Florida-based CJM Roofing faces stiff penalties as a result of five inspections over the past five years that revealed workers were exposed to fall hazards.
A 25-year-old roofer has died after falling from the roof of a barn on Dec. 28. Police say the man died due to cardiac arrest while waiting to be airlifted to a hospital.
A Maine-based roofing contractor has been hit with $278,456 from OSHA, bringing the total number of fines against the contractor to more than $2 million due to repeated fall protection violations.
Today's news is full of stories of roofing contractors from every state being OSHA-cited and heavily penalized for willful violations, as well as successfully sued for criminal and civil negligence for failing to provide fall protection for their employees. Why?
