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.

OSHA has cited Newark, New Jersey-based roofing contractor RRC Home Improvement Inc. for severe safety violations after federal inspectors found workers repeatedly exposed to fall hazards at three ...

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 ...

Roof systems that are maintained and evaluated ahead of time tend to perform more reliably when temperatures shift ...

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 ...

BEREA, Ohio (WJW) — Police released video of a 14-year-old boy falling off a roof while doing construction on a townhome in Ohio. The Berea Police Department said the boy was critically injured in the ...

A 14-year-old boy working on the roof of a townhome without required fall protection suffered critical injuries when he fell 20 ft. to the ground. Immediately following this serious incident, the ...

A Wichita, Kan. roofing contractor is facing $191,071 in fines after exposing workers to numerous fall and safety hazards. OSHA inspectors discovered employees of Jose Barrientos were not wearing ...

A Stuart roofing contractor now facing a $74,217 OSHA fine from a worker’s fatal fall off a hotel roof in December had been cited twice previously in 2019 for the same violation. Modern Construction ...

APPLETON — An Appleton roofing contractor faces a $281,000 fine after federal inspectors claimed it failed, again, to protect employees from deadly fall hazards. On July 7, the U.S. Department of ...

The owner of a suburban Philadelphia roofing company is heading to prison in connection with the fatal fall of an employee in 2013. Sixty-year-old James McCullagh was sentenced in federal court ...