OSHA: Fall Hazards in Residential Construction Top State's Workplace Violations for 2020

Federal safety officials last year issued hundreds of citations totaling more than $2 million in fines to Texas employers that allegedly failed to mitigate fall hazards at residential construction sites, according to data from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. In 2020, the agency handed out 469 fall-hazard citations to residential construction employers, the most in any Texas employment sector, said Joann Natarajan, an OSHA compliance assistance specialist from Austin. “What OSHA sees a lot of times is, people are doing roofing or they’re bringing in tr...