ECS Roofing Professionals Inc. (Joshua Herion)
Outcome
ECS Roofing Professionals Inc. was compelled to pay $365,576 in penalties and interest in 2024 — including through liens on the owner's property — after accumulating nine OSHA citations for fall protection violations since 2014 and refusing to pay upheld penalties even after the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission and courts affirmed them.
Details
ECS Roofing Professionals Inc. — Nine Fall Protection Citations Since 2014, Asset Seizure Required to Collect $365K (2014–2024)
Outcome: ECS Roofing Professionals Inc. was compelled to pay $365,576 in penalties and interest in 2024 only after the Department of Labor filed liens on the owner's property and threatened asset seizure — the company had accumulated nine OSHA fall protection citations since 2014 and refused to pay upheld fines after exhausting all appeals.
ECS Roofing Professionals Inc., operated by Joshua Herion and based in Waukegan, Illinois, had accumulated nine OSHA citations related to fall protection violations since 2014 — a decade-long pattern of "routinely endangering employees by ignoring federal workplace standards." The citations were upheld by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission in March 2023 and confirmed by the courts.
Despite exhausting all legal appeals, Herion refused to pay the $365,576 in penalties and accumulated interest. The Department of Labor filed liens on the employer's personal property in March 2024 and filed a motion to seize assets in May 2024. Only then did the company comply and pay. The Regional Solicitor stated: "Herion exhausted his rightful appeals process and even after the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission and the courts upheld the OSHA penalties, he refused to comply until his personal property was jeopardized."
Primary Source: US Department of Labor compels Waukegan roofing contractor to pay $365K after asset seizure threat
How Crucible Prevents This
Nine OSHA citations over a decade for the same fall protection failure, followed by refusal to pay upheld penalties, represents the extreme end of the enforcement non-compliance spectrum. Crucible's contractor pre-qualification module — screening for open unpaid OSHA penalties and citation history — would flag ECS Roofing as ineligible for any new project work authorizations until penalty payment is confirmed, providing a market-based enforcement reinforcement that complements regulatory action.
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