Construction Firms Cited for Fall Hazards

Construction firms in Oregon and Washington state were cited and fined for failing to provide fall protection for their workers. The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries on Tuesday said it fined the owner of a construction framing company $396,847 for a lack of fall protection, the same violation for which he’s already been cited 15 times. L&I said that when its inspectors arrived at a residential construction site in Seattle, they found a Genesis Framing Construction foreman supervising two workers — one on a hand-made scaffold and the other walking on a steep...