Employers Need to Provide Protection from Fall Hazards

Falls are one of the largest causes of injury and death at work.  Therefore, companies must do their best to protect employees from fall hazards.  OSHA assists with ensuring compliance with fall-related safety standards.

For example, OSHA recenlty cited Spray Polyurethane Foam with five alleged serious and one other-than-serious violations for not providing fall protection.  The alleged violations resulted from an investigation into a worker death in El Paso, Texas.  The employee allegedly fell almost 30 feet through a roof and died at the worksite.

The alleged serious violations included failing to determine if the roof had sufficient structural integrity to make roof repairs, failing to provide employees with fall protection and/or fall arrest systems, and failing to provide employee training for those potentially exposed to fall hazards.  Here is a link to a related article –

El Paso On-the-Job Injuries

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Written By: Dean Malone

Dean Malone

Dean Malone is the founder of Law Offices of Dean Malone, P.C., a jail neglect civil rights law firm. Mr. Malone earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Texas at Dallas, graduating summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA, and from Baylor University School of Law with a general civil litigation concentration. Mr. Malone served in several staff positions for the Baylor Law Review, including executive editor. Mr. Malone is an experienced trial lawyer, trying a number of cases to jury verdict and also handling arbitrations through final hearing. He heads the jail neglect section of his law firm, in which lawyers litigate cases involving serious injury and death resulting from jail neglect and abuse. Lawyers frequently refer cases to Mr. Malone due to his focus on this very complicated civil rights practice area.