Rockland Roofer to Pay $687,536 Fine for Endangering Workers

By Mindy Cohn

ALJ Home Improvement, a roofing company, will pay a $687,536 fine to the government for leaving workers vulnerable to falls at a Bergen County construction site, OSHA reported.

The Nanuet-based company was also responsible for the death of a roofer who wasn't wearing a safety harness when he fell 35 feet from a roof in Kiamesha Lake in 2019.

Subsequent violations included a job in Edison and another job at a condominium development in Suffern. One of the workers who was not wearing a safety harness at the Suffern condominium job site later died when he fell off of a roof in New Square in 2022, as reported by Rockland Daily here. 

From 2019 to 2023, eight investigations of ALJ's work sites produced more than three dozen citations and over $2.3 million in penalties, OSHA noted, including the $687,536 fine for not providing steep-slope roofing protection in Ho-Ho-Kus in 2022, six months after the worker fell to his death in New Square.