Dive Brief:

• Fall-protection violations were at the top of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's list of most-cited offenses for the fiscal year that ended Monday.
• Fall protection accounted for 8,241 violations; the second most frequent issue was not communicating with workers about hazards (6,156), followed by scaffolding issues at No. 3.
• Fall protection was at the top of the list for FY 2012, too.

Dive Insight:

The message about the need to, or perhaps how to, protect workers from falls, seems not to be getting through to some employers since that area had more than 2,000 more citations that the next-closest offense. What OSHA thinks of the situation is unclear because the federal government shutdown kept anyone from the agency from being at the 2013 National Safety Congress and Expo where the numbers came out.