{"id":3001,"date":"2014-02-10T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=3001"},"modified":"2019-10-28T10:34:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T10:34:55","slug":"osha-fines-illinois-roofing-company-158000-safety-hazards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/osha-fines-illinois-roofing-company-158000-safety-hazards\/","title":{"rendered":"OSHA Fines Illinois Roofing Company $158,000 for Safety Hazards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/\">U.S. Department of Labor\u2019s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) <\/a>has found five safety violations that carried a proposed penalty of $158,015 against an Illinois roofing company.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The company, Affordable Roofing and Exteriors, Inc. of Trenton, Ill., was cited after inspections at three job sites where workers were improperly using fall protection during the installation of shingles on residential roofs. Since 2009, Affordable Roofing has been cited in five inspections for similar violations by OSHA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The inspections were carried out in 2013 in Granite City and Belleville, Ill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At each job site inspection, OSHA found that there were willful violations for failing to ensure that workers used fall protection while doing their work on residential roofs.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/osha-fines-illinois-roofing-company-158000-safety-hazards\/#more-3001\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Labor\u2019s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has found five safety violations that carried a proposed penalty of $158,015 against an Illinois roofing company.\u00a0 The company, Affordable Roofing and Exteriors, Inc. of Trenton, Ill., was cited after inspections at three job sites where workers were improperly using fall protection during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,112,80,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-law","category-roofing-workers","category-scaffold-fall-injuries","category-work-injuries"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>OSHA Fines Illinois Roofing Company $158,000 for Safety Hazards &#8212; 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