Annual fall protection inspections help building owners identify compliance gaps, meet OSHA requirements, and ensure rooftop ...

Washington’s Labor & Industries department fined roofing companies more than $1.4 million for repeat fall protection violations, citing ongoing risks from falls at height.

The three willful violations include failing to ensure the integrity of a roof structure employers were working on, to provide and use fall protection systems on a low-sloped roof and to provide ...

The Center for Construction Research and Training (CPWR) Data Center study, “Fatal Falls from Roofs Among U.S. Construction Workers,” found that falls from roofs accounted for one-third of ...

OSHA cited Tip Top Roofing & Construction Inc. of Sycamore, Ill., for once again failing to provide workers with fall protection. The company has been cited a number of times since 2008 for fall ...

BEREA, Ohio (WJW) — Police released video of a 14-year-old boy falling off a roof while doing construction on a townhome in Ohio. The Berea Police Department said the boy was critically injured in the ...

Roof systems that are maintained and evaluated ahead of time tend to perform more reliably when temperatures shift ...

A 14-year-old boy working on the roof of a townhome without required fall protection suffered critical injuries when he fell 20 ft. to the ground. Immediately following this serious incident, the ...

A Stuart roofing contractor now facing a $74,217 OSHA fine from a worker’s fatal fall off a hotel roof in December had been cited twice previously in 2019 for the same violation. Modern Construction ...