The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Friday that it cited a New York contractor after an employee fatally fell through a roof opening to concrete flooring 20 feet below during an April construction project.
OSHA cited Huntington-based Elite Roofing Services Inc. for six willful violations and one serious violation following the workplace fatality, which occurred while workers were installing metal decking on a flat industrial roof at a Glen Cove work site.
OSHA proposed $522,527 in penalties.
The company failed to provide employees with proper fall protection such as guardrails, safety nets, personal fall arrest systems, positioning devices or fall restraint systems, OSHA said.
Employees were also not trained to recognize and mitigate fall hazards before conducting steel erection work, according to OSHA.
The company has 15 business days to contest the citation and proposed penalties.