February 2019, an ALJ Home Improvements Inc. roofer falls to his death at a worksite. February 2022, another employee dies under similar circumstances. Now, February 2024, ALJ owner Jose Lema, 41, of Nanuet, admits responsibility for one death.
A Rockland roofing contractor who was criminally charged in July in the death of an employee has consented to U.S. Department of Labor civil penalties and proposed remedial actions.
In the three years following a fatal accident at a job site in 2019, Rockland roofer Jose Lema was cited for numerous safety violations, paid heavy penalties and pledged to train his workers on safety procedures, yet last year another worker died on the job under circumstances similar to the first fatality.