By Bob Grotenhuis - Producer
EL PASO - Federal safety experts have issued five repeat citations to Best Plastering Contractors in El Paso for exposing workers to fall hazards.
Proposed penalties total $99,000.
“Falls are one of the most common and well-known hazards at a construction site. This is not the first time this company has jeopardized the safety of its workers,” said Jack Rector, OSHA’s area director in El Paso. “Falls can injure or kill a worker within seconds. It is fortunate in this case that there were no injuries or fatalities.”
OSHA’s El Paso Area Office initiated this inspection on Oct. 19, 2010, when employees were observed working on a scaffold without the use of fall protection equipment at a worksite on Carole Jeschke Court in El Paso.
Best Plastering employs about 18 workers at its El Paso facility and eight of them were at this worksite.
In 2009, the company was fined more than $106,000 and cited with four willful and three serious violations for exposing employees to the same safety hazards.
The company has three weeks to contest the citations and penalties.
Best Plastering employs about 18 workers at its El Paso facility and eight of them were at this worksite.
In 2009, the company was fined more than $106,000 and cited with four willful and three serious violations for exposing employees to the same safety hazards.
The company has three weeks to contest the citations and penalties.
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