The Dept. of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined four New Jersey contractors a total of $463,350 for exposing workers to fall hazards. The fines follow a December 2011 OSHA inspection in which employees of the four firms working on the fourth floor of the 20-story Cast Iron Lofts project in Jersey City lacked fall protection or fall protection systems, OSHA says.
The agency fined Jersey City-based owner White Diamonds Properties LLC $95,400 and masonry contractor Blade Contracting Inc. $11,550.