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.

OHSA is proposing penalties for two contractors after a roof truss collapsed and killed a 67-year-old worker in Florida.

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.

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.

OSHA previously cited the roofing contractor seven times since 2011 for fall-related hazards.

The roofing contractor reportedly failed to provide fall protection equipment to workers and train them on its use, according to OSHA.