D.R. Horton Inc. and Garcia Carpentry LLC received repeat and serious citations.
OSHA found hazards at the Silver Spring facility and issued one other-than-serious violation and five repeated violations to the company.
On Aug. 30, there eight hours of presentations devoted to construction safety topics divided into morning and afternoon sessions in the Sun C Ballroom.
The worker fell at a job site where OSHA previously cited violations. Material Handling Systems/MHS Technical Services faces total proposed penalties of $320,400.
The chicken producer was also cited for fall and machine guarding hazards.
New Alliance has been cited for 16 serious and one other-than-serious safety and health violations.
OSHA is asking companies to make sure employees use the proper equipment when required.
One of the safety industry's best annual events again visits the Mile High City next year. (ASSE's Safety 2012 conference also was in Denver.)
Waiting until the victim has fallen and is waiting to be retrieved is the wrong time to be making decisions about how to safely get the worker down.
In the absence of automated fall detection, a buddy system, along with a mindful approach where workers remain aware of each other, is called for because an undiscovered victim is a tragedy in the making.
Tempting as it may seem in the “real world,” fall protection choices should never be influenced by convenience alone.
Craig Galecka, P.E., CSP, for LJB Inc., along with Shawn Smith, CSP, U.S. Navy, led an afternoon session at day two of the ASSE Safety 2016 show discussing fall protection. In classic Letterman-style, the duo organized the presentation into a top ten list, discussing the most common fall protection equipment misuses.
MVP Plastics out of New York has been cited by OSHA for a repeat violation.
NRC said the flood modifications included building new or enhanced flood walls and other features, as well as moving some power lines and equipment to locations less prone to flooding. Duke Energy informed the agency two months ago that those modifications were complete, and a subsequent inspection caused NRC to determine that the company has satisfied the commitments in the 2010 confirmatory action letter.
The event will help improve federal worker safety and health.
Paramo Daniela Construction was cited for willful, repeat. and other than serious violations.
Why the drop in fatalities has occurred and what can be done to make sure the trend continues are still to be determined, said Scott Schneider, director of Occupational Safety and Health for the Laborers' Health and Safety Fund of North America.
W.S. Steel Erection faces $175,700 in proposed fines.
For those who attended the 2015 National Safety Council Congress & Expo nine months ago, the facility’s layout and downtown Atlanta are familiar territory.
British Telecommunications PLC has been fined £600,000, equivalent to $881,000, after two of its workers were seriously injured in falls in April 2010, the UK's Health and Safety Executive reported May 27.