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Maryland contractor continues to expose workers to falls from elevation, construction’s deadliest hazard, this time at Pennsylvania worksite

- August 18, 2022

Maryland contractor continues to expose workers to falls from elevation, construction’s deadliest hazard, this time at Pennsylvania worksite MECHANICSBURG, PA – A Maryland residential framing contractor – cited for 136 willful, repeat, serious and other violations in 20 workplace safety inspections since 2020 – continues to expose its workers to falls from elevation, the construction industry’s most lethal hazard, inspectors with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently found. OSHA opened an inspection on Feb. 23, 2022, at a Mechanicsburg work site as part of the agency’s construction targeting program, and determined that VD Construction Services LLC of Hyattsville failed to provide workers with required fall protection equipment, had set up and used extension ladders in an unsafe and improper manner, and did not ensure that workers using pneumatic tools had eye protection. OSHA cited the company for three willful and three serious violati...