Fall Protection

Falls from elevation are the leading cause of death in construction. Every year. Every published OSHA Top 10 list since at least 2010 has put fall protection — 29 CFR 1926.501 — at the top of the cited‑violations list. The standard is one of the oldest, best‑known, and most widely trained in the industry. And yet, in the United States, a worker dies from a fall roughly every other day on a construction site. When I'm retained as an expert witness in fall fatality cases, the f