A Guam contractor’s repeated lack of trench security resulted in over $1 million in fines.
A New Jersey agency faces over $819,000 in fines for exposing its staff to fall hazards and silica.
Roofing contractors owe steep penalties after OSHA noticed staff uncovered to fall hazards.
OSHA publicizes situations akin to these the place it points massive fines, as a method of exhibiting its regulatory energy and calling consideration to violations. Within the second quarter of this yr, the company highlighted a number of employers dealing with hefty penalties throughout a number of jobsites and inspections.
In building, these circumstances typically contain residential builders committing repeat violations, which carry a bigger preliminary penalty. The unique advantageous quantities are typically negotiated down in settlement, so they don’t all the time symbolize the quantity paid.
Big Building Corp.
Fines: $1,038,918
Standing: Contested
A contractor with a historical past of allegedly failing to guard staff in trenches faces over $1 million in penalties after OSHA says it has once more discovered workers working in excavations higher than 5 toes deep with out required security tools.
The Honolulu-area OSHA workplace allegedly found workers of Big Building Corp., based mostly in Tamuning, Guam, putting in sewer strains in a number of trenches at a jobsites in Tiyan, Guam. As a U.S. territory, Guam falls underneath OSHA’s purview.
Consequently, in April, OSHA cited Big Building with 9 willful violations and two severe violations. Every of the willful violations carries an preliminary penalty of $112,926.
Since 2014, OSHA inspections of Big Building jobsites have resulted in 9 violations, together with two severe violations and one repeat violation in October 2022.
The corporate is contesting the fines. Big Building Corp. couldn’t be reached for remark.
Street Contractor Corp.
Fines: $819,417
Standing: Issued
A Lengthy Department, New Jersey-based roofing contractor faces $819,417 in preliminary fines as a consequence of eight totally different work web site inspections from November 2023 to March 2024.
In Could, OSHA issued Street Contractor Corp. 32 security violations from these eight jobsite visits all through the state. Preliminary quotation quantities ranged from $21,293 to $183,261. In whole, the roofing and framing contractor faces 9 willful, 14 severe and 9 repeat violations.
In every inspection, OSHA alleges it discovered the corporate failed to offer staff with fall security safety along with safety from different hazards, akin to publicity to silica hazards with out the right coaching, lack of face and eye safety and permitting staff to make use of transportable ladders unsafely.
However that was additionally simply the citations in New Jersey highlighted by OSHA. In that very same time interval, the company levied $112,044 throughout three inspections in Pennsylvania, the place Street Contractor Corp. can also be licensed to work. These stemmed from one willful and 4 severe citations at three totally different jobsites, two in Lykens, Pennsylvania, and one in Wyomissing.
Based on OSHA, the corporate has a sample of exposing staff to hazards.
“Since July 2023, we’ve got present in 24 inspections that Street Contractor Corp. uncovered its workers routinely to harmful falls and different security hazards frequent in residential building,” mentioned Paula Dixon-Roderick, OSHA space director in Marlton, New Jersey.
The corporate doesn’t have any publicly accessible contact data and couldn’t be reached for remark.
H R Vasquez Building LLC
Fines: $267,332
Standing: Casual settlement ($44,623)
A Missouri roofing contractor faces $267,332 in April after 5 OSHA inspections from fall 2023 resulted in quite a few citations issued in Q2.
Federal office inspectors allegedly discovered H R Vasquez Building had failed to guard its staff from falls at 5 totally different residential worksites in Wentzville, Missouri, in October and November.
OSHA alleged the corporate didn’t present staff with safety as they labored at heights higher than 6 toes, and failed to make sure that staff utilizing nail weapons wore PPE. H R Vasquez Building additionally permitted the improper use of ladders and had not developed a written hazard communication program nor did it start or keep an accident prevention program, OSHA alleged.
Consequently, OSHA cited the corporate for 13 whole violations: 9 repeat, three severe and one aside from severe. Because the preliminary citations, OSHA’s institution search exhibits every advantageous had been negotiated by way of casual settlements that add as much as $44,623.
H R Vasquez Building doesn’t have publicly accessible contact data and couldn’t be reached for remark.
Maestro Building Inc.
Fines: $264,407
Standing: Issued
In June, OSHA issued Bolingbrook, Illinois-based Maestro Building Inc. two willful, two repeat, two severe and one other-than severe violations from inspections on jobsites in December and February.
Consequently, the framing contractor faces $264,407 in whole preliminary fines.
OSHA alleges Maestro Building uncovered staff to lethal falls at two houses underneath building in Hanover Park, Illinois. Staff labored at heights of as much as 20 toes with out sufficient fall safety, inspectors mentioned, and the company claims it found the corporate did not certify workers on coaching hazards and required private protecting tools.
Maestro Building has been cited seven occasions since 2020, in keeping with OSHA. The corporate didn’t reply to Building Dive’s request for remark.
13 Building & Professional Providers LLC
Fines: $258,063
Standing: Contested
In April, federal OSHA inspectors cited a Missouri roofing contractor for 21 violations for allegedly exposing staff to the hazards of fall hazards. OSHA claims to have considered staff employed by 13 Building & Professional Providers LLC working uncovered at heights 5 occasions in seven weeks at Wentzville, Missouri, residential worksites.
The company says the corporate permitted workers to work with out safety at heights higher than 6 toes, didn’t have a reliable individual examine and consider jobsite hazards each day and failed to coach workers to acknowledge hazards. 13 Building & Professional Providers additionally allegedly didn’t guarantee using correct protecting tools or secure use of ladders.
The corporate faces 16 severe and 5 willful violations and $258,063 in preliminary citations throughout the inspections. The Lake St. Louis, Missouri-based roofer is contesting the fines. OSHA says the contractor has dedicated 11 severe and two repeat violations since its 2021 incorporation.
The corporate doesn’t have any publicly accessible contact data and couldn’t be reached for remark.
Triple A Constructed LLC
Fines: $233,210
Standing: Contested
On Oct. 18, 2023, federal office inspectors allegedly discovered a Kansas roofing contractor placing workers in danger of falls from elevation and failing to offer required protecting tools at two residential worksites.
Consequently, Wellsville, Kansas-based Triple A Constructed faces two separate units of $116,605 citations issued in April. OSHA inspectors cited Triple A Constructed for six instance-by-instance repeat violations for lack of fall safety and two repeat violations for not offering staff utilizing nail weapons with eye and face safety.
Tripe A Constructed acquired citations for related violations in 2021, OSHA reported, and the company’s database exhibits the corporate paid $7,373 of a $10,533 preliminary advantageous in a casual settlement. The contractor is contesting the newer fines.
OSHA carried out instance-by-instance citations within the spring of 2023. Consequently, the company can concern a number of citations for particular violations the place it could have solely issued one prior to now. Consequently, preliminary fines can develop, as firms obtain one quotation for every employee uncovered to a hazard and every day these staff had been uncovered.
Triple A Constructed doesn’t have publicly accessible contact data and couldn’t be reached for remark.
