Commissioner's Final Decisions and Orders on MOSH Cases

2023

• 2023 Eastern Lift Truck Company
  Date Issued: April 21, 2023

2021

• 2021 Futurecare Old Court, LLC & Futurecare Courtland, LLC.
  Date Issued: Sept 9, 2021

2020

• R.F Warder, Inc.
  Date Issued: Oct 15, 2020

2019

• Cameron Insulation, LLC
  Date Issued: November 21, 2019
• Donald Excavating, Inc.
  Date Issued: Jun 11, 2019
• Specialty Industries, Inc.
  Date Issued: April 18, 2019
• Perfect Fit Window Fashions, Inc.
  Date Issued: March 29, 2019

2018

• Morgan - Keller, Inc.
  Date Issued: July 10, 2018
• B.W.S. Industries
  Date Issued: Feb 8, 2018

2017

• Jacobs engineering Group, Inc.
  Date Issued: August 1, 2017

2016

• Manganaro MidAtlantic, LLC
  Date Issued: March 10, 2016
• Whiting Turner Contracting Company
  Date Issued: April 14, 2016
• Recreational Industries, Inc.
  Date Issued: September 1, 2016

2015

• Caretti, Inc.
  Date Issued: September 14, 2015
• Phoenix Steel Erectors
  Date Issued: October 29, 2015
• UPS Ground Freight
  Date Issued: January 16, 2015

2014

• Balfour Beatty Infrastructure, Inc.
  Date Issued: January 14, 2014
• Riggs Distler & Company, Inc.
  Date Issued: February 4, 2014
• Edwards Remodeling Construction Corporation
  Date Issued: April 16, 2014
• Daniel Fraley, d/b/a Fabricated Metals, Inc.
  Date Issued: April 16, 2014
• Constellation Power Source Generation, Inc.
  Date Issued: October 29, 2014

2013

• Wickersham Construction & Engineering, Inc.
  Date Issued: October 25, 2014

2011

• American Paving Corp.
  Date Issued: September 14, 2011
• Home Depot, USA, Inc.
  Date Issued: September 14, 2011
• Whiting-Turner Contracting Co.
  Date Issued: October 18, 2011

2009

• Whitman, Requardt and Associates, LLP
  Date Issued: June 8, 2009
• Bargunier Masonry Contractors, Inc.
  Date Issued: July 27, 2009

2008

• All State Plumbing, Inc.
  Date Issued: January 31, 2008
• Washington Suburban Sanitation Commission
  Date Issued: March 4, 2008
• Chuck's Electrical
  Date Issued: April 7, 2008
• R.E. Michel Company
  Date Issued: September 16, 2008

2006

• Coleman American Moving Services, Inc.
  Cited Standard: 29 CFR 1910.136(a)
  Subject: Failure to require foot protection for employees
  Date Issued: January 6, 2006
• J.J.I.D., Inc.
  Cited Standards: 29 CFR 1926.651(k)(1); 29 CFR 1926.652(a)(1); 29 CFR 1926.651(c)(2); §5-405(b)(2), Labor and Employment Article, Annotated Code of Maryland
  Subject: Competent person inspection of a trench; Repeat citation; Protective systems for excavations; Lack of safe egress from trench; Hazardous chemical list violation
  Date Issued: April 28, 2006

2005

• Ed's Tree Service
  Cited Standards: 29 CFR 1910.266(i)(7)(i) and (i)(10)(i); 29 CFR 1910.1030(c)(1)(i), (d)(1) and (3)(i), and (f)(1)(ii)(A)
  Subject: Application of Logging Standards; Application of Bloodborne Pathogens Safety Standards; Infeasibilty defense; Knowledge
  Date Issued: April 29, 2005
  Commissioner's decision overturned by Prince George's County Circuit Court
• The Matricciani Company
  Cited Standards: 29 CFR 1926.651(j)(2) and (k)(2); 1926.652(a)(1)
  Subject: Trench design
  Date Issued: August 11, 2005
• Cole Roofing Company, Inc.
  Cited Standards: 29 CFR 1926.100(a); 29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(7)
  Subject: Repeat citation; Employer knowledge; Applicability of ladder standard
  Date Issued: August 31, 2005
• Gilbane Building Company and Heffron Company, Inc.
  Cited Standard: 29 CFR 1926.416(a)(3)
  Subject: Employer's exercise of reasonable diligence in discovering potential hazard
  Date Issued: October 18, 2005
• Chesapeake Steel Erectors, Inc.
  Cited Standards: 29 CFR 1926.760(a)(1); 29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1); § 5-408(a)(1), Labor and Employment Article, Annotated Code of Maryland; 29 CFR 1926.351(b)(4); 29 CFR 1926.752(b); 29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1)
  Subject: Employer knowledge; Affirmative defense of employee misconduct; Repeat citation; Chemical information list; Cables in need of repair; lack of a training program; portable ladder not properly secured
  Date Issued: November 4, 2005
• Pico Industries
  Cited Standards: 29 CFR 1926.500(a)(1); 29 CFR 1926.550(a)(7)(ii); 29 CFR 1926.1060(a) 
  Subject: Failure to comply with crane manufacturer's specifications; Failure to take wire ropes out of service due to damage; Ladder inspection by a competent person; Ladder training
  Date Issued: November 28, 2005

2004

• R.E. Michel Company, Inc.
  Cited Standard: 29 CFR 1910.176(b)
  Subject: Employer Knowledge
  Date issued: January 2, 2004
  Commissioner's decision overturned by Circuit Court of Baltimore City
• Consolidated HVAC, Inc.
  Cited Standard: 29 CFR 1926.652(a)(I)
  Subject: Employee Misconduct
  Date issued: March 25, 2004
• Otis Elevator Company
  Cited Standard: 29 CFR 1910.26(c)(3)(iii)
  Subject: Applicability of General Industry
  Standards, Violation of 1910.26(c)(3)(iii)
  Employee Misconduct
  Date issued: April 26, 2004
• Hardesty, Inc.
  Cited Standards: 1926.501(b)(4)(i)
  1926.502(i)(4)
  Subject: Employee Exposure
  Employer Knowledge
  Date issued: April 28, 2004
• U.S. Home Corporation
  Cited Standard: 29 CFR 1926.501(b)(11)
  Subject: Witness credibility
  Multi-employer Worksite
  Date issued: October 21, 2004

2003

• Williams Steel Erection Company
  Cited Standards: 29 CFR 1926.500(a)(I)
  29 CFR 1926.150(a)(4)
  29 CFR 1926.405(a)(ii)(I)
  Subject: Steel Erection - Applicability Subpart M 
  Violation of 1926.150(a)(4)
  Applicability of 1926.405(a)(ii)(l)
  Date issued: May 23, 2003
• Williams Steel Erection Company
  Cited Standard: 29 CFR 1926.550(a)(19)
  Subject: Steel Erection - Christmas Treeing
  Date issued: June 3, 2003
• J.D. Long Masonry, Inc.
  Cited Standard: 29 CFR 1926.200(g)(1)
  Subject: Service of Proposed Decision
  Applicability of 1926.200(g)(1)
  Date issued: June 17, 2003
• Chesapeake Contracting Group, Inc.
  Cited Standard: 29 CFR 1926.706(a)(1)
  Subject: Violation of 1926.706(a)(1)
  Date issued: June 18, 2003
• Williams Steel Erection Company
  Cited Standards: 29 CFR 1926.501(b)(4)(i)
  29 CFR 1926.501(b)(1)
  Subject: Applicability of Steel Erection Standard
  Applicability of Subpart M
  Date issued: October 16, 2003
• Morgan Keller, Inc.
  Cited Standard: 29 CFR 1926.502(i)(3) 
  Subject: Employer Knowledge
  Employee Misconduct
  Date issued: October 31, 2003
• Williams Steel Erection Company
  Cited Standard: 29 CFR 1926.105(a)
  Subject: Employee Exposure
  Employee Misconduct 
  Date issued: November 18, 2003

2002

• Allied Building Products
  Cited Standard: 1910.178(l)(1)(i)
  Subject: Employee Misconduct
  1910.178(l) Training Obligations
  Date issued: February 28, 2002
• Chuck's Electric, Inc.
  Cited Standard: 29 CFR 1910.332(b)(1)
  Subject: Violation of 29 CFR 1910.332(b)(1)
  Date issued: June 20, 2002
• Tate & Lyle North American Sugars, Inc.
  Cited Standard: 29 CFR 1910.147(c)(7)(4)
  Subject: Duplicate Violations
  Date issued: August 2, 2002
• U.S.Home Corporation
  Date: Issued - October 21, 2002

2001

• Cherokee Sanford Group, LLC
  Cited Standards: 29 CFR 1910.176(b)
  29 CFR 1910.23(a)(8)
  29 CFR 1910.24(b)
  Subject: Employee Exposure
  Violation of 1910.24(b)
  Date issued: December 31, 2001

2000

• Emar Bandel
  Cited Standards: 29 CFR 1926.651(j)(2) 29 CFR 1926.652(a)(1)
  Subject: Employee or Independent Contractor
  Date issued: February 2, 2000
• Kelly-Springfield Tire Company
  Cited Standard: 1910.20(f)(12)
  Subject: Violation of 1910.20(f)(12)
  Date issued: May 23, 2000
• Bricks-R-Us, Inc.
  Cited Standards: 29 CFR 1926.452 and 454
  29 CFR 1926.451
  Subject: Ignorance of Law
  Date issued: August 1, 2000
• Commercial Roof Coatings of Maryland
  Cited Standards: 29 CFR 1926.501(b)(10)
  29 CFR 1926.503(a)(1) and (b)(1)
  Subject: Failure to Appear at Review Hearing
  Date issued: September 7, 2000
• The Driggs Corporation
  Cited Standard: Section 5-104, Labor & Employment Article
  Subject: Feasibility and Likelihood of Utility
  Date issued: October 17, 2000
• Bethlehem Steel Corporation
  Cited Standard: Section 5-104, Labor & Employment Article
  Subject: Anning-Johnson/Grossman Rule - Multi-employer Worksite
  Date issued: November 21, 2000

1999

• The Roofing Center
  Cited Standard: 29 CFR 1926.501(b)(4)(I)
  Subject: Employee Misconduct
  Date issued: January 27, 1999
• Bethlehem Steel
  Cited Standard: 29 CFR 1910.212(a)(1)
  Subject: Impossibility/infeasibility defense
  Date issued: April 28, 1999
• Superior Steel Erectors
  Cited Standard: 29 CFR 1926.28(a)
  Subject: Applicability of Steel Erection Standards
  Date issued: August 3, 1999
• Drywall Specialties, Inc.
  Cited Standards: 29 CFR 1926.21(b)(2)
  29 CFR 416(a)(1)
  Subject: Scope of Record on Review
  Date issued: November 8, 1999
• Owings Mills Baking Company, Inc.
  Cited Standard: 29 CFR 1910.263(c)(3)
  Subject: Employer Knowledge
  Date issued: November 15, 1999
• George Hyman Construction Company
  Cited Standards: 29 CFR 1926.550(a)(17)
  29 CFR 1926.550(a)(7)(i)
  29 CFR 1926.550(a)(9)
  Subject: Evidence - Admissibility of Telephonic Testimony
  Violation of 1926.550(a)(7)(i)
  Violation of 1926.550(a) (9)
  Violation of 1926.550(a)(17)
  Date issued: December 22, 1999