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Items Tagged with 'roofing hazards'

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Roofing recruits learn more than safety skills in training

Roofing recruits learn more than safety skills in training

Climbing toward success
Ronny Roseveare
December 3, 2019
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Mich., Nevada cite companies for OSH violations

March 3, 2017
The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations to Dunn Paper Inc., in Port Huron for safety and health violations. MIOSHA inspectors determined that the company failed to adequately protect workers from amputation hazards posed by cooling fan blades, spinning flywheels and belts and pulleys.
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Roofers 23’ up without fall protection

January 31, 2017
All OSHA officers had to do to see the safety violations at one Winnetka, Illinois worksite was to look up. There, they saw employees who were roofing a home working at heights up to 23 feet without adequate fall protection.
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Worker severely injured on his first day on the job

October 3, 2016
An 18-year-old worker in Bay Harbor Island, Florida ended up in the hospital on his first day on the job -- because his employer failed to provide him with fall protection, according to OSHA.
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Roofing contractor again fails federal safety inspection

OSHA penalties: $108,500
June 16, 2016
After its latest OSHA inspection, a Florida contractor has increased the health and safety violations it’s been cited for to 23, and the fines it faces to more than $66K.
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Roofer ignores OSHA inspectors, exposes workers to 3-story falls

May 10, 2016
Two times in three days, OSHA inspectors witnessed Premier Roofing Company LLC and its sub-contractor Walter Construction LTD exposing workers to falls. On Dec. 21, 2015, OSHA responded after receiving a complaint about employees in danger of falling as they installed shingles on a three-story, multi-family building.
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Florida company continues long history of OSH violations

OSHA proposes $280K in fines for roofing company after two recent inspections
April 14, 2016
Recent federal inspections of Florida construction sites finds Jasper Contractors Inc., a Georgia-based roofing company, is continuing its seven-year history of ignoring safety and health laws and putting workers at risk of serious injury or death.
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Roofers risk of falls more than 60x greater than all other jobs combined

March 1, 2016
Falls are among the most common causes of fatal and nonfatal occupational injuries. Despite ongoing efforts, falls caused 724 deaths and 229,190 severe injuries at worksites across the nation in 2013.
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OSHA’s fall protection mandate angers roofing association

February 26, 2016
OSHA’s requirement that states who administer their own occupational safety and health agencies adopt federal provisions related to residential fall protection has the National Roofing Contractors Association hot under the collar.
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