Occupational Safety and Health Administration officials have again cited RRC Home Improvement Inc., Newark, N.J., for repeatedly violating safety requirements at three North Jersey job sites, exposing employees to fall hazards, according to OSHA. The company is not an NRCA member.
OSHA inspected an RRC Home Improvement job site in Dover, N.J., in June 2024 after receiving reports of employees working on a roof without fall protection. After warning the company about the hazard, in July 2024, OSHA inspectors opened inspections at two of the company’s job sites in Lodi, N.J., and again observed employees working without required fall protection. The inspectors also found violations involving lack of hard hats, eye protection and fire extinguishers; noncompliant pump jack scaffold poles; and unsafe ladder use.
OSHA cited RRC Home Improvement for four willful and seven serious violations; the company faces $328,545 in proposed penalties.
In five inspections since 2017, OSHA has cited RRC Home Improvement for failing to provide workers with fall protection and added the company to the agency’s Severe Violators Enforcement Program.
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