Articles Tagged with ''fall hazards''

A 40-year-old roofing contractor from Rockland County, NY, with a history of safety violations and two employee deaths, was charged with knowingly and willfully violating federal safety regulations, including failing to protect his employees from fall hazards, resulting in injuries and deaths. 

The most recent citation against the roofing company brings the total fines against it to more than $3 million since 2019.

A roofing worker reportedly fell to his death while working on a North Carolina high school building on April 26.

Find out which roofing contractors paid the heaviest tolls in 2022 following OSHA inspections.

Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows roofing remains one of the deadliest occupations in the United States.

This marks the eighth time the roofing contractor has been cited by OSHA related to fall hazards.

The roofing contractor has been placed on OSHA's severe violator enforcement program following repeated violations since 2019.

The penalties are in addition to a proposed $633,500 in OSHA penalties – still mostly unpaid – for similar violations found during 16 inspections since 2004.

The company's foreman failed to protect workers from known hazards as they did residential framing work on new homes under construction in Lake Zurich and Wheeling

OSHA previously cited the contractor for fall-related violations at worksites in Boston, Medford, Haverhill and Dorchester, Massachusetts between 2014 and 2016.