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Those of you who were quick on the draw may have noticed that for a few minutes this afternoon I thought OSHA had begun issuing press releases again. Foolish me. The source of my confusion was a recent citation<\/a> against Robert Barringer III for $223,873 for four willful and five serious violations dated February 14, 2017. \u00a0And a $205,544 Barringer citation dated February 3<\/a> for 4 willful and 5 serious violations. \u00a0When I did a search, I ran across a press release about Barringer for a\u00a0$214,782 citation and somehow missed the fact that it was dated January 4 2017 <\/a>— still during the Obama administration — for four willful and\u00a0two serious violations. \u00a0And then I started comparing it with a third Barringer citation from last August 17 <\/a>\u00a0for $89,100 for two willful, two repeated and six serious safety violations. Wait, what? \u00a0No wonder I was confused.<\/p>\n

Turns out that the most recent Barringer citation was the 22nd citation against Barringer since 2016 — most for failure to provide fall protection for the company’s workers. <\/strong>And just to top it off,\u00a0as of last Fall — about $733,000 ago — Barringer had failed to pay\u00a0$267,900 in federal penalties. Barringer doesn’t seem to believe in either workplace safety laws nor the law of gravity. And OSHA doesn’t seem to believe — at least yet — in publicizing the crimes of low-road employers.<\/p>\n

This raises the question about what OSHA — or the courts — should do about employers that repeatedly fail to comply with the law, \u00a0repeatedly fail to pay their fines and repeatedly endanger workers.<\/p>\n

Oh, and in case something thinks that this is a case of an evil federal agency harassing a decent business owner about trivial items, statistics show falls cause four of every 10 deaths<\/a> in the construction industry. More on OSHA’s Fall Prevention Campaign can be found here<\/a>\u00a0and much more information about fall prevention, courtesy of ELCOSH, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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