The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Williams Brothers Construction Co. Inc. with one repeat and one serious violation at a work site on Loop 610 in Houston, Texas. Proposed penalties total $45,500.
An Aug. 27 OSHA inspection found that workers were setting barrier copings at the edge of the highway bridge overpass without the protection of guardrails, a safety net or personal fall arrest system.
The repeat violation is for failing to protect workers from fall hazards.
A repeat violation exists when an employer previously has been cited for the same or a similar violation of a standard, regulation, rule or order at any other facility in federal enforcement states within the last five years. A similar violation was cited in June 2010.
The serious violation is for failing to protect workers from impalement hazards when working above unprotected rebar.
A serious violation occurs when there is substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result from a hazard about which the employer knew or should have known.
Williams Brothers is a Houston-based highway and bridge construction company that employs about 1,800 workers nationwide. The company has 15 days to contest the citation.
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