Judge Overturns Monetary Penalty in OSHA Fall-Training Case

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration didn’t show that an outdoor advertising company failed to properly train its workers in the use of fall protections, a federal administrative law judge ruled in overturning a fine the agency had issued.

Outfront Media Inc. faced a $12,675 citation after an OSHA inspector in October 2017 saw employees putting up a billboard in Waterbury, Conn., about four feet above the ground “without any means or method of fall protection,” Judge William Coleman wrote in an order issued June 5. The company had appealed the citation.

The order vacates three findings that came from ...