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Convicted Rockland Roofer Agrees To Pay OSHA $687,536 For Endangering Workers At Bergen Site Convicted Rockland Roofer Agrees To Pay OSHA $687,536 For Endangering Workers At Bergen Site
Convicted Rockland Roofer Agrees To Pay Osha $687,536 For Endangering Workers At Bergen Site A roofing company will pay the government $687,536 for leaving workers vulnerable to potentially deadly falls at a Bergen County construction site, OSHA reported. The decision to stop fighting the fines and penalties came roughly a week before ALJ Home Improvement of Rockland County was to go to trial against the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration over conditions at a job site in Ho-Ho-Kus (see photo above). It also comes two months before Jose Lema, ALJ's founder and principal, is due to be sentenced in federal court for the February 2022 death of an employee at a constr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Amazon Exposed NJ Workers To Hazards Causing Musculoskeletal Disorders: Feds Amazon Exposed NJ Workers To Hazards Causing Musculoskeletal Disorders: Feds
Amazon Exposed NJ Workers To Hazards Causing Musculoskeletal Disorders: Feds Workers at a New Jersey Amazon fulfillment center were exposed to numerous hazards causing bodily harm, prompting fines and multiple letters from the US Labor Department. US Labor Department opened an investigation into the Logan Township (Gloucester County) site in January, following complaints that Amazon was exposing workers to hazards capable of causing serious physical harm, the DOL said in a release. Amazon had allegedly been requiring employees to perform tasks leading to bodily stress that had caused, were causing and were likely to cause musculoskeletal disorders, the DOL said. The…

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by Cecilia Levine
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$2 Million Fine For NJ's 'Most Flagrant' OSHA Violator Upheld By Judge $2 Million Fine For NJ's 'Most Flagrant' OSHA Violator Upheld By Judge
$2 Million Fine For NJ's 'Most Flagrant' Osha Violator Upheld By Judge A Bergen County framing contractor dubbed New Jersey’s "most flagrant violator" of federal workplace safety laws the past decade must pay $2 million in back fines to the government, an administrative law judge has ruled. Juan Quevedo-Garcia, 42, of Palisades Park "deliberately failed to pay the fines and displayed a total disregard for the safety of his workers and for the law," Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Doug Parker said. In doing so, he "continually put workers at risk of serious injuries or worse" at four different job sites in Bergen County, a federa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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2 New Jersey Health Facilities Cited For Failing To Protect Employees During COVID-19 Pandemic 2 New Jersey Health Facilities Cited For Failing To Protect Employees During COVID-19 Pandemic
2 New Jersey Health Facilities Cited For Failing To Protect Employees During Covid-19 Pandemic A pair of New Jersey hospitals were issued citations by the U.S. Labor Department for failing to protect workers from COVID-19. CarePlus Bergen Inc., and Hackensack Meridian Health Residential Care Inc., were each slapped with citations from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). CarePlus is accused of violating respiratory standards at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus, while Hackensack Meridian failed to provide respirators to resident-care employees at its North Bergen facility, OSHA announced Friday. A New Brid…

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by Cecilia Levine