Not For Scaffold Use: Three Massachusetts Roofers Hospitalized When Scaffolding Breaks
Calling scaffolding being used by employees “substandard,” OSHA has issued nearly $300,000 in fines against Massachusetts employers A.C. Castle/Daryl J. Provencher.
Three roofing workers employed by Provencher Home Improvement of Beverly, Mass. were hospitalized after a two-story fall from a scaffold platform that broke beneath them, according to OSHA. The incident occurred, inspectors said, because a spruce plank used as the platform could not support the workers’ weight, was not graded for scaffold use and the plank’s invoice was clearly marked “not for scaffold use.”
