Latest Contractors Headlines
All the headlines from our Contractors Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Roofing Contractors Face $336K in Penalties for Safety Failures, Worker Death
Dec 30 2021 // A workplace safety investigation into the June death in Neville Island, Pennsylvania, of a 19-year-old roofing worker found two commercial contractors willfully failed to use fall protection systems that might have saved...
Contractor Dies in Fall at Illinois Caterpillar Foundry
Dec 27 2021 // A contractor working at a Caterpillar Inc. foundry in central Illinois fell to his death when he apparently stepped off a ladder at the plant, authorities said. The Peoria County coroner said Scott M. Adams, 50, of East...
Kansas Contractor Faces $223K in Penalties for Unsafe Workplace Exposures
Dec 22 2021 // A Kansas contractor faces $223,000 in penalties after a U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that the company exposes its workers to asbestos and other workplace hazards. The OSHA...
Two Rhode Island Contractors Face $75K in Penalties for Worksite Cave-In Risks
Dec 21 2021 // A federal inspection at a Warwick, Rhode Island, excavation found two area contractors ignoring cave-in risks and placing their workers in serious danger. On July 8, 2021, a U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and...
Insurer Can Keep Using its Own Repair Contractor, Florida Appeals Court Finds
Dec 21 2021 // For the fourth time this year, a Florida appeals court has decided in favor of People’s Trust Insurance Co., requiring homeowners to let the carrier’s chosen contractor make the needed repairs. Josh...
New York Contractor Faces $244K in Penalties for Exposing Workers to Fall Risks
Dec 20 2021 // Three federal safety inspections at a Suffern, New York, condominium complex confirmed a Rockland County roofing contractor repeatedly exposed residential roof workers to potentially deadly falls from heights of 18 to 20...
New York Contractor Faces $374K in Penalties After Fatal Worker Fall
Dec 17 2021 // A federal workplace safety investigation has found a Queens, New York, construction contractor failed to provide and ensure the use of effective fall protection safeguards that would have prevented the death of a worker...
Commercial Surety 101: Why Contractors Need to Be Licensed and Bonded
Dec 15 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Old Republic Surety. As you build a book of bond business to better serve your commercial clients, you’ll be surprised to learn how many need to be licensed and bonded....
Maine Roofing Contractor Found Not Guilty in Death of Worker
Dec 14 2021 // A jury has found that a roofing contractor in Maine is not guilty of workplace manslaughter for the 2018 death of a worker. The Portland Press Herald reports that the jury reached its verdict at the Cumberland County...
California Farm Labor Contractor Arraigned in Alleged $1.8M Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Dec 10 2021 // Alfredo Casas, 62, of Stockton, California, has been arraigned on 15 felony counts of insurance fraud, grand theft and tax evasion. Casas allegedly underreported payroll for his farm labor contracting business by over $1...
Update on Vaccine Mandates for Businesses, Health Workers and Federal Contractors
Dec 6 2021 // Millions of health care workers across the U.S. were supposed to have their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by Monday, Dec. 6 under a mandate issued by President Joe Biden’s administration. Thanks to legal...
OSHA Fines Georgia Grading Contractor $20,480 After Worker’s Death
Nov 30 2021 // If federal workplace safety requirements had been followed, a 24-year-old Georgia worker would not have been killed in a front-end loader accident in May, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said. OSHA...
Kentucky Contractors’ Self-Insurers’ Fund Returns $27M Dividend
Nov 19 2021 // The Kentucky Associated General Contractors’ Self-Insurers’ Fund will make a $27 million dividend payment to members next spring, the fund announced. The dividend marks the 28th straight year that the fund has...
Clock Is Ticking for Contractors and Workers Resisting Vaccine Mandates
Nov 3 2021 // In Wichita, Kansas, nearly half of the roughly 10,000 employees at aircraft companies Textron Inc. and Spirit AeroSystems remain unvaccinated against COVID-19, risking their jobs in defiance of a federal mandate, according...
States Sue to End Biden COVID Vaccine Mandate for Federal Contractors
Nov 1 2021 // Eighteen states filed three separate lawsuits Friday to stop President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors, arguing that the requirement violates federal law. Attorneys general from Alaska,...
Former Michigan Contractor Sentenced in $3.8M Unemployment Insurance Fraud
Nov 1 2021 // A former contractor for the state of Michigan has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for helping orchestrate a $3.8 million fraud scheme involving money intended to help unemployed people during the coronavirus...
South Carolina Busts Contractors for Tax Evasion, False Insurance Certificates
Oct 27 2021 // For three years, undercover investigators watched as construction company owners in South Carolina met with a check-cashing company in parking lots, then walk away with bags of cash and fake insurance certificates, showing...
California Labor Commissioner Cites Contractor $1.7M for Wage Theft Violations
Oct 19 2021 // The California Labor Commissioner’s office has cited JPI Construction $1.7 million for wage theft violations affecting 265 workers. An investigation reportedly found that the San Diego-based company failed to pay...
Texas Contractor Fined $212K in Fatal Crane Collapse
Oct 15 2021 // Federal workplace safety officials say a Lufkin, Texas, contractor’s failure to assemble a crane boom properly caused the crane to collapse onto a passing vehicle on Interstate 10 near Beaumont, killing the two...
Illinois Construction Contractor Cited for Workplace Hazards; Fined $229.7K
Oct 15 2021 // For the sixth time in seven years, a federal workplace inspection has found a Roselle, Illinois, construction contractor putting workers at risk of serious injury or death by defying federal requirements to ensure the use...
