Articles Tagged with ''fall hazards''

Two unrelated incidents at universities making headlines show the need for roofing contractors to take proper precautions when working at heights.

Roofers were repairing and replacing a roof at a Baton Rouge job site when one of them lost their footing, stepped on and fell about 30 feet through a skylight.

The roofing contractor has been previously cited four times for similar fall protection violations between 2014 and 2017.

A Florida roofing contractor's failure to protect its workers from fall hazards led to the death of a 25-year-old worker in February 2022.

The contractor currently owes more than $378,561 in penalties from six previous inspections dating back to 2018.

OSHA is proposing the fines after six inspections of five work sites revealed the contractor did not provide fall protection to employees working on roofs.

OSHA inspectors found crews working at tall heights with inadequate fall protection at two separate job sites within 10 days of each other.

After continually refusing to correct fall hazards, OSHA took the rare step of posting an imminent danger notice at a jobsite in Maine.

OSHA found the contractor failed to provide fall protection equipment to workers on November, about six months after the contractor’s last citations.