OSHA Inspection: SANDSTRUM HOMES INC

Issued

Mar 18, 1999

Abate by

Feb 3, 1999

Penalty

Initial $375 · Current $100 Reduced

General-duty citation text

ORS654.010:  The employer did not furnish a place of employment which was
safe and healthful
for employees therein, and did not furnish and use such devices and
safeguards,and did not adopt
and use such practices, means, methods, operations and processes as are
reasonably necessary
to render such employment and place of employment safe and healthful and
did not do every
other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, safety, and health
of the employees:
(a) For this employer as a General Contractor with duties to include
monitoring subcontractors
work quality, performance and scheduling did not ensure safety for those
employees as evidence
by those employees working on scaffolding on or about 02/03/99 at
approximate heights of  21
feet with multiple alleged violations of that scaffolding.
OR IN THE ALTERNATIVE
29 CFR 1926.21(b)(2): The employer did not instruct each employee in the
recognition and
avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulation applicable to his work
environment
to
control or eliminate any hazard or other exposure to illness or injury:
(a)  For this employer as a General Contractor with duties to include
monitoring subcontractors
work quality, performance and scheduling did not ensure safety for those
employees as evidence
by those employees working on scaffolding on or about 02/03/99 at
approximate heights of 21
feet with multiple alleged violations of that scaffolding.
THIS VIOLATION WAS COMPLIED WITH AT THE TIME OF INSPECTION..