The Department of Labor’s (DOL) campaign to make working at height safer – and thus reduce construction fall fatalities – is apparently falling on deaf ears in New Jersey, at least where one company is concerned.

OSHA has cited Brick-based La Conti Concrete & Masonry Inc. for nine safety and health violations -- two of them repeat --at a Secaucus work site. OSHA's March investigation was initiated in response to an imminent danger complaint alleging employees were working on the fifth level of a supported scaffold without fall protection. Proposed penalties total $74,830.