If you’ve ever experienced an unexpected visit from an OSHA inspector, you know how important it is to be prepared. If you haven’t, consider this: OSHA has jurisdiction over 7 million worksites and, ...

Washington’s Labor & Industries department fined roofing companies more than $1.4 million for repeat fall protection violations, citing ongoing risks from falls at height.

The Center for Construction Research and Training (CPWR) Data Center study, “Fatal Falls from Roofs Among U.S. Construction Workers,” found that falls from roofs accounted for one-third of ...

OSHA cited Tip Top Roofing & Construction Inc. of Sycamore, Ill., for once again failing to provide workers with fall protection. The company has been cited a number of times since 2008 for fall ...

The three willful violations include failing to ensure the integrity of a roof structure employers were working on, to provide and use fall protection systems on a low-sloped roof and to provide ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Double M Roofing & Construction after the agency says a 14-year-old was critically injured in a fall from a roof. OSHA cited ...

An administrative law judge has instructed a Rochester commercial roofing company to pay a $16,782 financial penalty for two serious fall protection and ladder safety violations. The news comes after ...