Residential Construction

76% of OSHA's Construction Fall Protection Citations Hit Houses: The FY2025 Data on 1926.501(b)(13)

OSHA's most-cited construction standard is, in practice, a residential roofing and framing rule. In FY2025, 5,142 of 6,778 federal fall protection citations in construction cited one paragraph, 1926.501(b)(13). Roofers took 56% of them, three in four came from planned inspections, and one in five was a repeat.