A Nanuet roofing company has been fined $687,000 for workplace safety violations at a New Jersey work site. The fine comes one week before a trial was scheduled to begin, with the company, ALJ Home Improvement, withdrawing its challenge to the U-S Labor Department’s violations. The Labor Department said company founder, 41 year-old Jose Lema, had a history of fall hazard violations with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Since 2019, OSHA has inspected the company ten times and cited multiple fall-related violations, including two that involved fatalities, one of them at a worksite in New Square. That incident led Lema to plead guilty last month to criminal charges in New York, and sentencing is scheduled for May. He faces six months in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000.