OSHA Inspection: H & B MASONRY CO.

Issued

Apr 23, 1986

Abate by

Apr 26, 1986

Penalty

Initial $420 · Current $420

General-duty citation text

Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970:  The
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employer did not furnish employment and a place of employment which were
free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death
or serious physical harm to employees in that employees were exposed to
collapsing masonry wall:
a) On March 5, 1986, an unsupported, non-loadbearing concrete block wall
was under construction at the National Food Store jobsite on Gannon
Drive, Festus, Missouri. This was the south wall of the building
being constructed, running east and west, measuring one-hundred and
six (106) feet in length by approximately seventy-one (71) pounds
apiece. The employees were laying blocks from a Morgan scaffold,
located on the south side of the wall, approximately sixteen (16)
feet from the ground. A sudden gust of high wind exerted horizontal
pressure on the north side of the wall, causing the western-most
fifty-four foot section of the wall to collapse on the employees
working on the scaffold.
Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable abatement method to
correct this hazard is temporary bracing or shoring of unsupported
masonry walls under construction when built higher than ten (10) times
their thickness.

Issued

Apr 23, 1986

Abate by

Apr 26, 1986

Penalty

Initial $360 · Current $360

Issued

Apr 23, 1986

Abate by

Apr 26, 1986