BOH Brothers Construction Co., LLC; 09-0239; 11/30/10

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”) inspected the Louisiana worksite of Boh Brothers Construction Co. (“Boh”) following a fatal bridge construction accident, and issued Boh a citation under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, 29 U.S.C. §§ 651-678. In an order dated October 4, 2010, Administrative Law Judge G. Marvin Bober affirmed a violation of 29 C.F.R. § 1926.502(d)(8), which requires that “[h]orizontal lifelines . . . be designed, installed, and used, under the supervision of a qualified person, as part of a complete personal fall arrest system, which maintains a safety factor of at least two.” The parties stipulated that the horizontal lifeline to which the alleged violation pertains could have supported up to five workers with a safety factor of two.