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Lucas Shrewsbury dba Infinite Installation and Repair
Roof fall citations affirmed by default
OSHA cited Infinite Installation and Repair after employees allegedly worked on a 19-foot-high low-slope roof without fall protection and near unprotected skylights. The company contested the citations but repeatedly failed to provide ordered discovery, and the judge first imposed lesser sanctions…
Harvestland Constructors, Inc.
Fatal fall citation vacated for lack of employer knowledge
Harvestland Constructors was building a feed mill in Georgia when an experienced carpenter fell 38 feet through an uncovered floor opening and died from his injuries. The carpenter had been assigned to cover the openings and was not using the available personal fall-arrest system when he fell. The…
Tessier's, Inc.
Roof-hole fall protection violation affirmed
Tessier's employees were installing HVAC roof curbs when they decided to trim a wooden cover that protected a roof opening. The employees assumed the cover was attached to the building, but it was a friction-fit cover and was not fastened to the structure. As an employee leaned on the cover while…
Payton Roofing, Inc.
Three roof fall items affirmed
OSHA inspected Payton Roofing crews at two residential buildings and cited several fall-protection conditions. After multiple items were withdrawn, the judge addressed an unguarded roof opening, two employees connected to a single-user anchorage, and a damaged lifeline that had not been removed…
Martin Mechanical Contractors, Inc.
Willful skylight fall protection violation affirmed
Martin Mechanical Contractors sent a three-person crew to replace rooftop HVAC equipment at a Georgia warehouse. The roof had eight unguarded skylights, and no crew member used a personal fall arrest system or other protection. One employee fell about 15 feet through a skylight and died from his…
PM Construction & Rehab, L.P., a Subsidiary of Inland Pipe Rehabilitation, LLC
Manhole safety citations and $14,700 vacated
A pipe-replacement crew member suffered a fatal injury after entering a manhole against instructions, but the record did not establish the accident's cause. The judge found that the Secretary did not prove other workers were exposed to the manhole edge and that the worker inside used a fall-arrest…
CentiMark Corporation
Roof structural-integrity citation affirmed after fatal fall
CentiMark employees replaced a damaged concrete roof panel at a steel facility with a roof more than 60 feet above the factory floor. After the panel was removed, adjacent panels showed missing and crumbling concrete and exposed reinforcing steel, but CentiMark did not conduct a closer inspection…
Altor, Inc., and/or Avcon, Inc.
Eight willful items affirmed with $412,000 penalty
OSHA cited extensive hard-hat, open-edge, and floor-hole hazards during construction of a sixteen-story concrete building. The Commission held that Altor and Avcon operated as a single employer because they shared a worksite, management, ownership, office support, and integrated operations. The…
Thos. S. Byrne, Ltd.
Ladderway fall hazards result in $1,750 penalty
Byrne employees used unguarded ladderway openings on the roof and third floor of a theater restoration project, with falls of about 13.5 feet possible. The judge affirmed the opening-protection item for those ladderways but dismissed an instance involving smaller floor holes because OSHA cited the…
Downrite Engineering Corporation
Manhole safety violations mostly affirmed
Downrite employees installed a sewer manhole invert while one employee worked at the bottom of a 10-foot manhole and another lowered cement, bricks, water, and tools from above. The judge rejected Downrite's Fourth Amendment challenge because the general contractor and Downrite supervisory…
FABI Construction Company, Inc.
Construction violations affirmed after fatal slab collapse
A FABI employee was killed when a 10,000-pound concrete knockout slab collapsed during demolition at an Atlantic City construction project. After reviewing the full record, the Commission affirmed the judge's findings that FABI committed multiple serious construction violations, including failures…
AJP Construction, Inc.
Fall and scaffold violations resulted in $87,400 in penalties
AJP Construction performed concrete superstructure work at a residential construction site in Hoboken, New Jersey. OSHA conducted one inspection after a referral and another after falling form material struck an outrigger scaffold, causing it to collapse and killing an employee. The judge affirmed…
JFK Builders
Floor-opening fall violation affirmed
JFK Builders assigned two employees to clear snow and ice around a large floor opening so guardrails could be installed. Neither employee used fall protection, and one fell at least 10 feet to the basement floor and sustained serious injuries. JFK argued that protection was infeasible during the…
Turner Construction Company
Escalator-access and floor-hole citations vacated
Turner was the general contractor for interior demolition at an Atlanta building where another contractor's equipment-repair technician was found dead after an apparent fall through a floor opening. OSHA cited Turner for allegedly failing to barricade an escalator and protect employees from floor…
Lancaster Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a Orbit Roofing Co.
Safety-program item vacated, glass-skylight item affirmed
Lancaster Enterprises, doing business as Orbit Roofing, was installing a rubber roof on a three-story apartment building in Massachusetts when an employee slipped near the roof edge and fell 33 feet to his death. The Commission upheld vacatur of the general safety-program item because the Secretary…
Cleveland Construction, Inc.
Skylight fall item reduced from willful to serious
Cleveland Construction supervised replacement of large skylight panels at a university building. OSHA videotaped the company superintendent and another worker next to an uncovered skylight opening 18 to 22 feet above the floor without fall protection. Judge Ken S. Welsch found the skylight standard…
Grayhawk of America, Inc.
Four construction safety violations affirmed after employer failed to appear
OSHA cited Grayhawk of America for four serious construction safety violations involving head protection, eye and face protection, unprotected deck edges, and unguarded floor openings. The employer received notice of the hearing but did not appear or request a postponement. The compliance officer…
James Eddy, d/b/a Eddy Roofing, Inc.
Roofing safety violations affirmed and penalties reduced for size
OSHA inspected Eddy Roofing after a fatal fall from a roofing worksite about 40 feet above the ground. The company withdrew its contest to violations involving its safety program, fall-hazard training, roof edges, skylights, guardrails, warning lines, access, and hazard communication. Judge…
Engineered Construction Systems, Inc.
General contractor liable for subcontractor fall hazards
Engineered Construction Systems was the general contractor for a quick-lube building project in Colorado. OSHA observed masonry employees working on scaffolds more than 10 feet high without guardrails and workers near unguarded floor pits almost eight feet deep. The judge held the general…
What these documents are
- Commission decisions: Rulings by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission itself, the highest level of agency review. These are citable as Commission precedent, though a decision may have been appealed to a U.S. Court of Appeals after issuance.
- ALJ decisions: Rulings by OSHRC Administrative Law Judges after a hearing. When no Commissioner directs review, an ALJ decision becomes a final order under 29 U.S.C. § 661(j): it binds the parties in that case but is not binding precedent in other cases.
- Why finality matters: Every page here says which kind of decision you are reading, so you know whether it is precedent you can cite or a final order that only shows how one judge ruled on one set of facts.
- Where they come from: Every page links the official OSHRC public release, and the full text on the page is that release. The plain-English summaries are written by Ezel.