The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration released its top 10 most frequently cited federal health and safety violations for fiscal year 2023, and the top four entries relate to construction fall protection standards.
As authorities continue to investigate a crane collapse that rained thousands of pounds of steel debris onto a busy Manhattan, New York, thoroughfare on July 26, the owner and operator of the failed crane are facing scrutiny over past safety failures, as reported by Jake Offenhartz of Claims Journal.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration released its top 10 violations of OSHA rules for fiscal year 2022, which showed that failing to protect construction workers from falls continues to be the most common hazard that OSHA inspectors are citing employers for. In addition, OSHA’s most cited rules included three other construction fall prevention measures—protecting workers on scaffolds, ladder safety and training workers to avoid falls.
