Dive summary:

• After a worker fell 20 feet from the roof of a commercial building in Hoisington, Kan., in October and was paralyzed by his injuries, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration looked into the incident and now has cited Ryan Roofing Inc. of Salinas for three violations.
• OSHA charged that Ryan failed to ensure the integrity of a roof structure where employees were working, didn't provide and use fall protection systems on a low-sloped roof and didn't train workers on how to protect themselves from falls – all what OSHA terms willful violations rather than inadvertent ones.
• The outcome resulted in Ryan being put in OSHA's Severe Violator Enforcement Program, which brings more scrutiny, and a fine of $115,500, which Ryan can seek to have reduced.

From the article:

A willful violation is one committed with intentional, knowing or voluntary disregard for the law's requirement, or plain indifference to employee safety and health. ...