Business Owner Indicted for Selling Fake OSHA Safety Cards

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Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced the indictment of Redcode Inc., a construction training company with locations in Brooklyn and Queens, along with owner Lutfur Rahman, 34, and associate Mohammed Tushar, 34, for allegedly selling counterfeit OSHA and New York City Department of Buildings safety cards to workers who never completed required training.
Undercover Department of Investigation investigators posing as construction workers visited Redcode’s locations between April 22 and July 16, 2025, and were allegedly offered Site Safety Training and OSHA cards for $500 each without completing coursework, after which Redcode allegedly had them sign fake attendance sheets and submitted false completion information to the DOB and an OSHA-designated training intermediary.
Rahman, Tushar, and Redcode Inc. are charged with three counts of offering a false instrument for filing, three counts of receiving reward for official misconduct, and six counts of falsifying business records.
DOB Commissioner Ahmed Tigani said the agency has invalidated all SST cards issued by Redcode, warning that fraudulent certifications risk undermining safety gains and endangering both untrained workers and their coworkers on job sites.

A 57-year-old construction worker was seriously injured Tuesday afternoon after a temporary concrete walkway collapsed on San Antonio’s northeast side, according to police.
San Antonio police responded to the scene and concluded that the worker fell when the concrete slab being used as a temporary walkway gave way.
The San Antonio Fire Department transported the worker as Priority 1, indicating a severe injury, to a hospital.
San Antonio police determined the incident was a workplace accident with no criminal activity involved and the investigation remains ongoing.

John Howard has been reappointed to another six-year term as director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and administrator of the World Trade Center Health Program, which provides medical monitoring and treatment to more than 140,000 9/11 responders and survivors nationwide.
The reappointment comes just days before the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and follows a bipartisan push from 26 members of Congress, who urged Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in July to retain Howard for stability and institutional continuity.
Howard first became NIOSH director in 2002 and has served under administrations of both parties. Benjamin Chevat, executive director of 9/11 Health Watch, called the reappointment “necessary but not sufficient,” citing ongoing issues including a reported $13 million in unissued research funding, staffing problems and delays in care and certification processing.
Chevat said the decision could signal a shift after what he described as 18 months of communication blackouts, delays and staff firings and rehiring within the program.

A construction worker suffered a minor injury Tuesday after a partial building collapse in Burrillville, Rhode Island, according to police.
First responders were called to Douglas Pike near Ironmine Road just before 1 p.m. after the roof framework collapsed during construction.
Crew members told police the injury resulted from the framework failure during the building process.
The town’s building inspector also responded to the scene and will conduct an assessment.