Highest Fined Industries by OSHA in the Year 2010

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is a federal agency that makes sure that companies operate in a manner that keeps all the employees safe at workplaces. The agency fines individual companies but the reports are organized to be specific to the violation.

In the year 2010, construction companies faced the highest number of OSHA citations and heavy fines. The use of scaffolds at construction sites was considered improper and fined 9093 times. Similarly, fall protection was cited incorrect and penalized 6771 times.

Manufacturing plants are the second runner up in facing OSHA citations. Hazard communications or communications used for the level of hazards associated with hazardous materials was fined 6378 times in 2010 alone. This implies that there were more than 6000 incidents where hazardous substances were mislabeled or not labeled at all and could have been mistaken for safer products. Respiratory protection was penalized around 3803 time last year at manufacturing plants.

Electricians are also fined with OSHA citations. Last year, the federal agency fined the electrician industry 3079 times for electrical and wiring methods and 2556 times for electrical general requirements. With these violations, the electrician industry becomes the third highest fined industry in the U.S for last year.