Loading ...OSHA Fines in Fall Hazards: $308,500
Earlier this month OSHA released news about New Place Carpentry who is facing new fines in the amount of $308,500. In the past six years they have been cited eight times by OSHA for “willful and repeat fall hazards.” These hazards included lack of fall protection and unsafe work involving scaffolding. OSHA’s New England regional administrator, Marthe Kent, stated that the huge fines proposed were to “…reflect the gravity of these hazards and this employer’s ongoing refusal to comply with basic, commonsense, and legally required protections for its workers.”
There are costs (fines, injuries, lives) to not following rules. Interestingly, the blogger chat about this company was mostly about short cuts. Shorts cuts in building and short cuts in protecting employees. It will be interesting to see what happens.**
**All companies, after receiving a citation and proposed penalties, have 15 business days to either comply, meet with OSHA or contest the findings.
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