Roofer Pays Civil Penalty for Teen Worker's Fatal Fall

An Alabama roofing contractor has paid a $117,175 penalty that was issued after a 15-year-old worker died from a 50-foot fall at a Cullman work site in July 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Wednesday. The DOL said Apex Roofing & Restoration LLC agreed to pay the civil penalty in connection with an investigation by the Wage and Hour Division that found the company illegally employed the teenager in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The teenager, who was on the first day of the job, fell from the roof of a Cullman Casting Corp. building and suffered fractures of t...