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How often to you drive by workers up on the roof of a new construction or re-roofing who are not using fall protection. From my experience, it’s somewhere around ALL THE TIME!!! Well OSHA is not amused. . In late 2021, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 351 of the 1,008 construction workers who died on the job were deaths related to falls from elevation<\/a>. OSHA regulations state that fall protection<\/a> must be used in construction whenever workers are more than 6 feet off the ground and OSHA’s website is full of information about how to prevent falls.<\/p>\n

Just this month, OSHA has issued several large citations against companies who ignore fall protection (and other hazards and repeatedly endanger — and sometimes kill — their workers. And none of these citations are “Oops, my bad. I’ll never do it again” situations.\u00a0 These employers knew the law. They knew how to protect their employees. They knew they were endangering their workers. In some cases their workers died.\u00a0 And they didn’t care.<\/p>\n

None of these citations are \u00a0“Oops, my bad. I’ll never do it again” situations.\u00a0 These employers knew the law. They knew how to protect their employees. They knew they were endangering their workers. In some cases their workers died.\u00a0 And they didn’t care.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Earlier this week, OSHA cited ALJ Home Improvement In<\/a>c. for $1,343,363 in penalties after OSHA investigated the the New York company killed its second worker in three years.\u00a0 OSHA opened the inspection on Feb. 8, 2022, when a worker fell from the roof of a three-story residential construction project in Spring Valley. In February 2019, another company employee died in a fall at a Kiamesha Lake work site.\u00a0 OSHA has inspected ALJ Home Improvement six times since 2019, issuing 21 violations and levying $299,425 in fines. Its infractions include multiple willful fall protection and eye protection violations, cited most recently in November 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cALJ Home Improvement continues to ignore the law and callously exposes its employees to falls from elevation, the construction industry’s deadliest hazard,\u201d said OSHA Regional Administrator Richard Mendelson in New York. \u201cTheir repeated willful violations are evidence of an indefensible and inexcusable pattern of disregard for the safety of their employees. OSHA will continue to take strong enforcement actions against such employers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The agency determined that ALJ failed to provide fall protection training or ensure effective fall protection safeguards were used. They also failed to provide eye protection for employees using pneumatic nail guns, exposing them to the risk of serious eye injuries.<\/p>\n

The employer’s knowledge of fall and eye protection requirements, and its deliberate and recurring violations of these standards, led OSHA to issue egregious citations for each instance an employee at the Spring Valley site was exposed to the hazards. In total, ALJ Home Improvement was cited for nine willful and three serious violations.<\/p>\n

And in another failure to heed a warning from OSHA, Premier South Roofing LLC<\/a>, a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, roofing contractor faces $249,323 in proposed penalties after a 22-year-old worker fell 30 feet to his death through a skylight while repairing and replacing a roof.\u00a0 Premier has been warned. On Feb. 2, 2022, an OSHA inspector\u00a0observed five Premier South employees working on a roof without adequate fall protection<\/a>, and cited the company for failure to provide fall protection and a repeat violation for failure to provide ladder safety.<\/p>\n

Cite ’em before they kill<\/h2>\n

Happily, OSHA often gets to workplaces before<\/em> a workers is killed or seriously injured.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, OSHA issued a $224,000 citation to Benny Troyer Roofing and Trail Roofing LLC working at heights of up to 20 feet above the ground without adequate fall protection while Troyer was on-site at an Akron, Ohio home under construction. Inspectors also found the employer allowed workers to use ladders improperly and failed to enforce the use of head, face and eye protection. The inspection on Feb. 28, 2022, identified one repeat safety violation, two willful violations and one serious violation.<\/a><\/p>\n

The current penalties are top of $108,318 in previously unpaid penalties. OSHA cited Benny Troyer Roofing and Trail Roofing LLC for similar violations in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese concerns are not new for this company. OSHA has explained abatement and safety procedures to Mr. Troyer repeatedly, but he continues to defy federal inspectors and gamble with workers\u2019 lives,\u201d said OSHA Area Director Howard Eberts in Cleveland. \u201cNo other cause kills more construction industry workers than falls from elevation. OSHA will hold this employer and others accountable for failing to provide safe working conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n

On August 8, OSHA cited VD Construction Services of Hyattsville<\/a> for three willful and three serious violations, proposing $87,429 in penalties for failing to provide workers with required fall protection equipment, using extension ladders in an unsafe and improper manner, and failure to ensure that workers using pneumatic tools had eye protection at a construction site in Pennsylvania. The company has been cited for 136 willful, repeat, serious and other violations in 20 workplace safety inspections since 2020.<\/p>\n

What is to be done?<\/h2>\n

Clearly current OSHA citations aren’t sufficient to deter some repeat violators. Under certain conditions, OSHA can issue large willful or repeat\u00a0 or egregious violations. But those can be legally burdensome, and as we can see, the employer can treat them as a cost of doing business, or even just ignore them and hope it will be a while before the feds catch up with them.<\/p>\n

In the case of ALJ<\/a>, OSHA pursued “egregious” or “violation-by-violation” citations. That means instead of issuing one blanket violation for failure to provide fall protection, OSHA issues a violation for each worker exposed. In this case, OSHA issued 9 willful violations, some for failure to provide fall protection, and some for failure to provide eye protection.<\/p>\n

OSHA’s egregious policy<\/a> states that “The large proposed penalties that accompany violation-by-violation citations are not, therefore, primarily punitive nor exclusively directed at individual sites or workplaces; they serve a public policy purpose; namely, to increase the impact of OSHA’s limited enforcement resources.”<\/p>\n

Also, because an ALJ employee was killed, and the death was associated with willful violation for failure to provide fall protection, the Department of Justice can pursue criminal charges. DOJ is often reluctant to do that however, because the process is long and resource-intensive, and under the current language of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, a conviction would only be a misdemeanor.<\/p>\n

This is all good, and $1.3 million is a pretty substantial fine for OSHA, but ultimately real deterrence will require much higher OSHA penalties — especially for willful and repeat violations — and strong criminal sanctions as proposed in the Protecting Americas Workers Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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