{"id":899010,"date":"2021-08-10T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/?p=899010"},"modified":"2021-08-06T15:16:35","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T21:16:35","slug":"osha-citations-results-big-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/osha-citations-results-big-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Sin \u2013 Construction Contractor\u2019s Alleged Failure to Abate OSHA Citations Results in Big Penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Daniel Birnbaum, Mark Lies, Craig Simonsen and Adam Young | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.environmentalsafetyupdate.com\/osha-compliance\/cardinal-sin-construction-contractors-alleged-failure-to-abate-osha-citations-results-in-big-penalties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Seyfarth Shaw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Seyfarth Synopsis<\/em><\/strong><em>:&nbsp;By ignoring the terms of a settlement agreement it had with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (\u201cOSHA\u201d), a New Jersey roofing contractor now faces more than $600,000 in penalties after numerous citations for allegedly failing to abate 2020 OSHA citations.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Employers often receive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/top-10-osha-standards-cited-for-the-construction-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">OSHA citations<\/a>. Any citation the employer receives must be \u201cabated,\u201d meaning that the violation must be corrected to comply with the law, within 20 days of a settlement, unless a longer abatement term is prescribed by the settlement agreement.&nbsp; OSHA regularly conducts follow-up inspections to ensure abatement. Failure to abate can be fined with huge penalties \u2014 $13,653&nbsp;<em>per violation, per day beyond the abatement date<\/em>. For example, just 60 days after the abatement date, four citations could result in a fine of more than $3,000,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>OSHA\u2019s Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey Area Office recently penalized a construction employer following a series of inspections at multiple worksites. In December 2020, OSHA allegedly observed the contractor\u2019s employees working on a residential roof project without required fall protection, the most commonly cited occupational safety issue. In January 2021, OSHA visited another work site where \u201cinspectors identified unsafe use of ladders and failures to ensure that workers used head, eye and fall protection.\u201d These two inspections resulted in two willful, four repeat, and three serious citations and $420,521 in penalties.&nbsp;&nbsp;According to OSHA, the \u201ccontractor \u2026 agreed to make safety improvements after federal safety&nbsp;inspections in 2019&nbsp;identified nine violations with proposed penalties of $121,687.\u201d The employer then \u201cviolated its settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor. Following inspections in 2020 and 2021, the company now faces $600,741 in penalties for 10 more violations.\u201d The new citations include a&nbsp;$180,220 citation&nbsp;for failure to abate one Serious violation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The huge citation was coupled with a public relations disaster when OSHA released a damaging press release: OSHA Area Director Lisa Levy excoriated the contractor\u2019s alleged \u201cfailure to honor its agreement with OSHA and knowingly put workers at risk of serious injuries or worse is inexcusable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any allegedly non-compliant conditions that OSHA raises during an inspection should be promptly abated during the inspection (if possible) to reduce the probability of citations and to secure a Quick Fix penalty deduction. If OSHA issues citations, employers would be wise to carefully consider what citations they accept, and how those citations can be abated. Abatements can be explicitly detailed in settlement agreements, to ensure that all parties have the same views of abatement. Citations must be abated within 20 days of the settlement agreement becoming a final order, and additional \u201cenhanced\u201d abatements \u2014 that do not correspond to specific citations \u2014 should also be addressed promptly. If OSHA raises concerns about abatements that were submitted, employers should be responsive and prompt to get any issues addressed. Employers should consult with outside counsel on how to structure settlement agreements and avoid large Failure to Abate citations like the one received here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Birnbaum, Mark Lies, Craig Simonsen and Adam Young | Seyfarth Shaw Seyfarth Synopsis:&nbsp;By ignoring the terms of a settlement agreement it had with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (\u201cOSHA\u201d), a New Jersey roofing contractor now faces more than $600,000 in penalties after numerous citations for allegedly failing to abate 2020 OSHA citations. Employers&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myconstructionexpert.com\/blog\/osha-citations-results-big-penalty\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cardinal Sin \u2013 Construction Contractor\u2019s Alleged Failure to Abate OSHA Citations Results in Big Penalties<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10895],"tags":[9895,11518],"class_list":["post-899010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-osha-osha","tag-advise-consult","tag-osha-citations","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cardinal Sin \u2013 Construction Contractor\u2019s Alleged Failure to Abate OSHA Citations Results in Big Penalties - Advise &amp; Consult, Inc.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Employers often receive OSHA citations. 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