OSHA has inspected Labor Finders 10 times in Florida since 1994.
The latest one began on Jul 27, 2015 as part of a related case, in Lakeland.
Those inspections ended with 1 citation item: 1 serious.
Penalties were first proposed at $7,000 and still stand at $7,000.
How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for staffing, cleaning and waste services employers since 2015 is $2,201, and Labor Finders averages $7,000 (1 cited inspection).
1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.
It reported 3 severe injuries to OSHA since 2015.
Citation items per year, by inspection date.
Florida · latest 90 days of OSHA records
338employers cited
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Incident on Jun 15, 1994 (fatal): Employee dies after falling off ladder
Employee #1 had been hired from a labor pool to help tear off a roof. To reach t he roof, the employer had elevated a truck bed to 15 feet, placed a ladder from the asphalt to the truck bed, and placed another ladder from the truck bed to th e eave of the roof (25 ft high). Employee #1 had been directed to come down from the roof to fill a water cooler with water. All surfaces were wet from a light rain shower. Employee #1 came down the ladder facing away from the ladder, and e ither he or the ladder slipped. Employee #1 fell onto a small wall; he died of h is injuries.
No citations from this inspection.
Severe injury reports
Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 3 reports on file.
A temporary employee was on the second rung of a ladder installing a window on the third floor of a residence. The suction cups on the window failed causing him to fall approximately 10 feet. He fell through the scaffolding on the second floor and then rolled down the stairwell to the first floor. The employee sustained fractured discs and a fractured hip.
An employee was working next to a conveyor belt. His hand was caught in the rotating roller which pulled his arm through up to his elbow. He was hospitalized for damage to his tendons as well as abrasions.
Feb 4, 2015, Saint Augustine: Hospitalization · fractures · back, including spine, spinal cord, unspecified
Employee was carrying tar paper on the roof when he slipped on the roof's wet surface and fell from a two-story house, fracturing his lower back.
The rules behind these citations
Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA enforcement data. A citation is OSHA's allegation; employers can contest it, and the status column shows where each item stands. Something wrong on this page? Tell us.