Safety Talk

A worker with 35 years of experience was clearing snow and ice off a roof when he slipped and fell. The fall sent him plummeting through a plexi-glass panel to his death four stories below, inside an atrium crowded with shoppers and lunchtime visitors.  Investigators found the worker’s safety harness had not been attached to an anchor point on the roof.  OSHA fine the company $40,750, but more importantly, a spouse lost her husband and his family lost a kind, caring person. “He didn't come back home, and he never will come back home.” WHAT'S AT STAKE  Snow and ice removal is […]