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Company facing penalties over safety hazards

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A Jayess-based construction company faces $72,000 in proposed penalties in connection with repeated safety violations at its Covington, La., worksite, according to federal safety officials. R.K. Wallace Construction, doing business as Wallace Steel Erectors, was cited by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration over three repeat safety violations for failing to protect workers from fall hazards at the site, according to a release from the federal labor agency.

"OSHA's regulations specifically state that any employee working upwards of 15 to 30 feet, while performing steel erection, must wear a harness," said Dean McDaniel, OSHA's regional administrator in Dallas. "No worksite should fail to protect employees from hazards of falling. It is fortunate no one was injured."

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