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OSHA cited Misdea Enterprises LLC, a Weymouth, Massachusetts, masonry contractor, for alleged willful and serious viol ations of safety standards after an employee fell 30 feet while climbing a scaffold

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OSHA’s inspection found that the scaffold lacked a ladder or other safe means of accessing its upper levels and the workers were not supplied with fall protection while working on the scaffold.

Employers must provide fall protection for each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet above a lower level.

These conditions resulted in OSHA issuing two willful citations with $56,000 in proposed fines against the masonry company.

“Falls are the leading cause of death in construction work, and employers must take all required steps to prevent and minimize this potentially deadly hazard,” said Brenda Gordon, OSHA’s area director for Boston and southeastern Massachusetts.

“Safe working conditions must not and can never be a matter of luck.”

In addition, OSHA determined that the scaffold was not fully planked, which created an additional fall hazard. Furthermore, the agency found that workers were threatened by electrocution, since the scaffold was located less than 18 inches from uninsulated and energized power lines.

These conditions resulted in two serious citations with $5,600 in fines.

Information on construction fall protection and scaffolding hazards and safeguards is available online.

Article was retrieved from http://www.ercweb.com/resources/viewtip.aspx?id=7584.

I recently received an email with a news article about a man falling off a roof while he was working. Unfortunately, this article continues to prove that building owners do not see how imperative it is to have the right safety equipment on the roof until a rooftop worker actually has an accident.

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September 9, 2010

Man critical after falling 20 feet from roof

By Neale Gulley The Tonawanda News The Tonawanda News Thu Sep 09, 2010, 10:07 PM EDT

A 21-year-old employee at a City of Tonawanda business sustained critical injuries Thursday afternoon when he plunged some 20 feet from a rooftop onto a concrete pad below.

The Grand Island man, whose name has not been released, was apparently working on the roof at Great Lakes Metal Treating Inc., at 300 East Niagara St. around 2:30 p.m. when he fell through what appeared to be a ventilation opening or skylight on the roof of the building.

City of Tonawanda Fire Chief Charles Stuart said the man was listed in critical condition at ECMC about an hour later.

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“We had an employee who was doing some work on the roof and apparently fell through a skylight,” Stuart said. “I would say it was a 20 or 25-foot fall.”

City of Tonawanda Police said the accident is under investigation as an industrial accident.

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Occupational Safety and Health Administration officials were notified of the fall, as is department policy in any such investigation.

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“He was carrying some kind of blower-type fan — something large,” Police Lt. Fred Foels said was his preliminary understanding of what happened. “He either tripped or walked on the skylight and crashed through.”

Stuart said responders were dispatched to a call that the man was conscious and breathing, bleeding from the head.

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Stuart said he was unconscious when crews arrived and the man was rushed to ECMC via Twin City Ambulance.

“It was a trauma call,” he said. “We make sure they have an airway and they’ re not bleeding to death and then we get them to the hospital as soon as possible.

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They reported him as conscious but for all intents and purposes he was unconscious.”

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Two men ascended a lift to the top of the building and could be seen surveying the rooftop in the aftermath.

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It has been seen in the news that there are dire consequences for you and your rooftop workers by failing to provide or use OSHA approved adequate fall arrest protection system on building rooftops.

In 2005 Unicco Service Company received national attention plus penalties and reprimands from the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.

In a matter of two years, they had two fatal window cleaning accidents that resulted in the death of three window cleaners, plus an OSHA citation for $152,500. OSHA rules a willful violation as “one committed with intentional disregard of, or plain indifference to, the requirements of the OSHA regulations.” In both accidents, window cleaners were improperly rigged and anchored.
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This unfortunate situation can easily be avoided with the installation and proper use of a certified fall protection anchorage system.

However, the majority of over 4.6 million commercial buildings still have systems that fail to meet the standards and regulations set by OSHA and ANSI I-14.1.

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