OSHA Inspection: BANDO CONSTRUCTION, INC.

Issued

Jun 9, 1994

Abate by

Jun 19, 1994

Penalty

Initial $3,000 · Current $1,500 Reduced

General-duty citation text

Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970:  The
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:
a) On or about 5-5-94, the employer did not allow for proper curing time
of masonry
cement mortar and allowed seven employees to enter an 8 ft. deep concrete
block residential
basement thereby exposing them to a struck-by hazard.   Among other
methods, a feasible and
acceptable abatement method to correct this hazard is as follows:
FEASIBLE ABATEMENT:  1.  Use of adequate braces to sustain the stress on
the masonry
wall due to lateral force exerted by backfill.
2.  Review of work flow schedules to ensure proper curing that will resist
the lateral force
exerted by backfill to maintain a safety factor margin of error due to
backfill.