Residential Masonry Contractor Cited for Repeat, Serious Violations at Alabama Worksite
Fines totaling $48,000 have been proposed after inspectors found alleged [...]

Fines totaling $48,000 have been proposed after inspectors found alleged [...]

Fines totaling $134,000 have been proposed. OSHA issued three willful [...]

OSHA says an inspection conducted under its Site Specific Targeting [...]

An OSHA construction safety task force that descended upon 46 [...]

Proposed fines totaling $187,150 have been issued to an industrial [...]

Worker faces proposed fines of $182,000. OSHA opened an investigation [...]

OSHA claims employees were exposed to the dangers of falls, [...]

Proposed penalties of $134,900 have been issued to a company [...]

Newmarket Stucco Supplier Fined $55,000 for five OHS violations discovered [...]

An investigation of Hess Corporation’s Port Reading, NJ, oil refinery [...]

Fifty-eight serious and five repeat violations were cited for workplace [...]
Two oil refineries in Mississippi and Alabama have been cited [...]

OSHA issued the citations following an inspection that began in [...]

The company was cited for eight repeat and 13 serious [...]

An OSHA inspection found that a worker was exposed to [...]
A fall from even a short height can be fatal. We're willing to bet that this worker would be looking at a hospital stay at minimum if he lost his footing on this roof.
Here we have a photograph of two workers working at a significant height without any form of fall protection. They did take the time to place safety cones on the ground, which lends a sad irony to this scenario.
What good is a sparklingly clean window if the person who attended to it is lying severely injured or dead on the ground below?

A well-placed safety sign is a good reminder for your workers and visitors, but this photograph shows a dizzying array of "watch your step" warning signs that could actually distract workers and lead to a fall on this stairway.
Clutter and an excavation could create considerable risk for anyone needing to access a first-aid kit or fire extinguisher.
This skinny plank, which barely spans its supports at both ends, provides workers with a potentially exciting, yet unsafe, means of getting to and from their worksite. It could easily snap or shift, or a worker could simply lose his balance and fall from it.
This unbelievable photograph was snapped more than 30 floors above Sydney, Australia.

When people don't have the right equipment or are too lazy to go get it, they tend to improvise in ways that are anything but wise. Here's a photo of a man holding a worker upside down outside an elevated window. The strain is plainly evident on his face.
Just one little misstep is all it would take for this worker's day to come crashing down in a painful, even deadly way.
Practice makes perfect, or so it is said. But workers who perfect unsafe practices and think nothing bad will ever happen to them are often sadly proven wrong.