The U.S. Department of Labor levied $77,000 in fines against JC Silva Remodeling Services L.L.C. of Bridgeport, citing the company in the Feb. 14 death of a worker who fell during a skylight job in Shelton.
DOL”™s Occupational Safety and Health Administration placed JC Silva Remodeling in its severe violator enforcement program, which mandates follow-up inspections to ensure compliance with the law. The program focuses on recalcitrant employers, in OSHA”™s words, who endanger workers by committing willful and repeated violations.
OSHA stated JC Silva Remodeling failed to use guardrails or lifelines at multiple job sites in Fairfield County to protect workers from the threat of falls.
“This death was needless,” said Robert Kowalski, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration”™s area director in Bridgeport, in a prepared statement. “Especially disturbing is the employer”™s recurring failure to adequately protect its workers against the number one killer in construction work, even after a fall claimed the life of one of its employees.”
