4/11/13 - An Oakland County roofing company has been issued safety violation citations and fines in relation to the death of a construction worker who fell off the roof of the new EMS headquarters building under construction in Howell Township. Paul Wrzesinski is a Safety Manager with the Construction Safety & Health Division of the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or MIOSHA. He tells WHMI that Summit Roofing of Lake Orion was issued two citations for the February 18th incident in which one of their employees fell off of the roof that was under construction at the new Livingston County EMS and Survival Flight headquarters, located off Tooley Road near the Spencer J. Hardy Airport. The worker, whose name was never released, was taken by Survival Flight to the hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. Wrzesinski says after a review of the job conditions at the site, they determined the company had failed to have the worker utilize a personal safety harness or other fall-arresting device and that a safety monitor was also not is use at the site. Each of the two citations carries a $2,800 fine, which Wrzesinski says the company has appealed. He says they can twice appeal the MIOSHA findings before the case would go to an administrative law judge. (JK)
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