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Best Plastering Contractors in El Paso, Texas, has been fined by OSHA for five repeat citations. The company has allegedly been penalized for exposing workers to fall hazards. The proposed fines sum up to almost $99,000. Jack Rector says, “Falls are one of the most common and well known hazards at a construction site. This is not the first time this company has jeopardized the safety of its workers”. Rector is OSHA's area director in El Paso, “Falls can injure or kill a worker within seconds. It is fortunate in this case that there were no injuries or fatalities”, he added. The El Paso's Area Office of OSHA initiated this inspection on the 19th of October, 2010. The inspection was started after observing employees working on a scaffold without the use of fall protection equipments. Best Plastering Contractors has employed 18 workers at its El Paso facility. 8 of these workers were present at the site at that time. The violations the company has been cited for include failing to...