Articles Tagged with ''fall prevention''

OSHA opened an inspection in February when a worker for the roofing contractor fell from the roof of a three-story residential construction project in Spring Valley.

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 2020 incident occurred at a jobsite in Mars, Pa., where an employee fell to their death and three others were injured after falling from a roof and scaffold.

According to OSHA, the fatality could have been prevented if the Texas-based contractor heeded a citation issued a month prior to the incident for failing to provide a personal fall arrest system.

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

According to Oregon OSHA, this is the seventh time the company violated the same fall protection requirement.

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