OSHA Inspection: COTTAGE BUILDERS, INC

Issued

Apr 18, 2012

Abate by

Apr 25, 2012

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.20(b)(2): The employer did not initiate and maintain programs which provided for frequent and regular inspections of the job site, materials and equipment to be made by a competent person(s):     a. Site- Employees were exposed to fall, struck by, powered industrial truck, electrical, fire, eye, ppe, housekeeping, and ladder hazards where the employer did not provide for a competent person to conduct frequent and regular inspections of the job site, materials, and equipment.

Issued

Apr 16, 2012

Abate by

Apr 17, 2012

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $5,600 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 was free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees in that employees were exposed to fall, struck by, and caught between hazards associated with the installation of inadequately braced prefabricated roof trusses:     a. Buildings 1, 2, 3, 4- Employees were exposed to struck by hazards where prefabricated wood roof trusses were not adequately braced during installation.

Issued

Apr 16, 2012

Abate by

Apr 23, 2012

Penalty

Initial $4,000 · Current $3,200 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.150(c)(1)(i): A fire extinguisher, rated not less than 2A, was not provided for each 3,000 square feet of the protected building area, or major fraction thereof:    a. Site- Employees were not protected from fire hazards where flammable and combustible materials were used in and around wood framed structures being built onsite that did not have a fire extinguisher available.

Issued

Apr 16, 2012

Abate by

Apr 17, 2012

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.150(c)(1)(vi): A fire extinguisher, rated not less than 10B, was not provided within 50 feet of wherever more than 5 gallons of flammable or combustible liquids or 5 pounds of flammable gas were being used on the jobsite:    a. Site- Employees were not protected from fire hazards while filling construction equipment with diesel fuel using multiple five gallon containers where there was no fire extinguisher located within 50 feet.

Issued

Apr 16, 2012

Abate by

Apr 17, 2012

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $5,600 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13): Each employee engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet or more above lower levels was not protected by guardrail systems, safety net systems, or personal fall arrest systems, nor  did the employer demonstrate that it is infeasible or creates a greater hazard to use these systems and develop and implement a fall protection plan which meets the requirements of paragraph (k) of section 1926.502.    a. Buildings 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5- Employees working from the second floors were exposed to falls of over ten feet from unprotected floor edges, wall openings, stairway openings, and window openings.

Issued

Apr 16, 2012

Abate by

Apr 30, 2012

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $5,600 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.503(a)(1): The employer did not provide a training program for each employee potentially exposed to fall hazards to enable each employee to recognize the hazards of falling and the procedures to be followed in order to minimize these hazards:      a. Site- Employees who were exposed to falls were not provided with fall protection training that included, but not limited to, anchor point selection, equipment installation, free fall distance, equipment connecting devices, and fall hazard recognition from the employer.

Issued

Apr 16, 2012

Abate by

Apr 17, 2012

Penalty

Initial $6,000 · Current $4,800 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1051(a): Stairway(s) or ladder(s) were not provided at all personnel points of access where there was a break in elevation of 19 inches (48 cm) or more, or no ramp, runway, sloped embankment, or personnel hoist was provided:    a. Buildings 2, 3, 4, 5, 6- Employees were exposed to slip and trip hazards where the step up to the front and rear first floor entry ways were approximately 25 inches from the exterior grade.

Issued

Apr 16, 2012

Abate by

Apr 17, 2012

Penalty

Initial $5,000 · Current $4,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1052(c)(1)(i): Stairways having four or more risers or rising more than 30 inches (76 cm), whichever is less, were not equipped with at least one handrail:    a. Buildings 1, 2, 3- Employees were exposed to slip and trip hazards where a handrail was not installed in each of the stairways going to the second floor.

Issued

Apr 16, 2012

Abate by

Apr 17, 2012

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1052(c)(1)(ii): Stairways having four or more risers or rising more than 30 inches (76 cm), whichever was less, were not equipped with one stairrail system along each unprotected side or edge:  a. Building 2- Employees were exposed to a fall hazard where the stairway did not have a stair rail system installed along the unprotected edge.