Roofing company hit with more than $440,000 in new fines
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A Snohomish, Washington-based roofing company with an “extensive history” of worker safety violations is facing $442,654 in new fines for “disregarding the same rules it has been caught violating repeatedly over the last several years,” the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries said Tuesday.
L&I opened an inspection of Allways Roofing last November after an agency official saw roofers on a two-story building working without fall protection. Because the company was already considered a Severe Violator, inspectors returned to the job site daily following the initial inspection.
During one of the return visits, they found workers using nail guns without eye protection and another worker who had removed their fall protection to install a vapor barrier. As a result, L&I issued 11 citations for repeatedly ignoring fall protection requirements, inappropriate eye protection, and a lack of training for workers.
The most recent enforcement action brings the total fines against the company to more than $3 million since 2019, according to L&I.
