The agency has offered assistance on the safety and health hazards that present themselves this time of year.
This is the sixth time the roofing contractor has been cited for exposing workers to fall hazards, according to OSHA, which issued $101,121 in penalties for the safety violations to Home Live Roofing LLC.
Mavis Tire faces $103K in federal fines after an inspection.
A10.48 and TIA 322 are fast tracked, with a Jan. 1, 2017, effective date for both.
The $117,740 in penalties includes a willful violation with the maximum allowed penalty of $70,000 for not performing regular safety inspections and not fixing defective items such as broken horns and broken seat belts.
Workers faced fall, unguarded machinery, and electric shock hazards, according to the agency. Proposed penalties total $88,632.
Twenty-two companies, including four multiple winners, won in the magazine's eighth annual New Product of the Year contest. Winners will receive their trophies at the 2016 National Safety Congress & Expo in Anaheim.
Willful violations were issued for failure to properly guard a chop saw and provide standard railing and handrails.
Falls are a leading cause of shipyard fatalities, according to OSHA, which states that 40 percent of all fatal incidents in shipyard employment from 1992 to 2014 resulted from falls to a lower level, citing BLS data. The current standards haven't been updated since 1971.
The pre-conference program identifies 10 technical sessions as "hot topics" for this year—and they look very promising.
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.