Dive Brief:

•  Airworks Construction, a roofing contractor based in Luthersburg, Pa., has found itself on the wrong side of a $36,960 penalty assessment from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
• The company was re-roofing a home in late summer when inspectors said they found workers who had not been provided with fall protection, as well as three other violations.
• A complaint brought OSHA to the job site as part of the agency's push to crack down on injuries and deaths from falls.

Dive Insight:

Who knows whether what OSHA said it found with Airworks crews was different from what a thousand other roofing crews were doing, but Airworks is facing the penalty for being caught in what OSHA says were violations of safety rules. Fall protection is one of the areas on which OSHA has said it is cracking down, hoping to reduce deaths and injuries each year.