OSHA Inspection: COREY O'DONNELL

Issued

Apr 26, 2012

Abate by

May 17, 2012

Penalty

Initial $3,000 · Current $500 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.20(b)(2):     Programs did not provide for frequent and regular inspections of the job sites, materials, and equipment to be made by competent persons designated by the employers:    Employees conducting residential roofing activities were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 13.5 feet.  The employer did not have a competent person onsite able to recognize that employees were exposed to fall hazards.

Issued

Apr 26, 2012

Abate by

May 17, 2012

Penalty

Initial $4,200 · Current $500 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(6):     On scaffolds where scaffold planks were abutted to create a long platform, each abutted end did not rest on a separate support surface:    Employees conducting residential roofing activities were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 13.5 feet while working from a ladder jack scaffold.  Wooden scaffold planks were bridged onto the metal planking of the ladder jack scaffold and both planks were supported by a single ladder jack.

Issued

Apr 26, 2012

Abate by

May 17, 2012

Penalty

Initial $4,200 · Current $500 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2)(i):     Footings were not level, sound, rigid, and capable of supporting the loaded scaffold without settling or displacement:    Employees conducting residential roofing activities were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 13.5 feet while working from a ladder jack scaffold.  The center ladders footings that supported the ladder jack scaffold were placed in loose dirt and when employees used the scaffold, it sank or slid causing them to fall.

Issued

Apr 26, 2012

Abate by

May 17, 2012

Penalty

Initial $4,200 · Current $250 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1):     When scaffold platforms were more than 2 feet (0.6 m) above or below a point of access, portable ladders, hook-on ladders, attachable ladders, stair towers (scaffold stairways/towers), stairway-type ladders (such as ladder stands), ramps, walkways, integral prefabricated scaffold access, or direct access from other scaffold, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Cross braces were used as a means of access:    Employees conducting residential roofing activities were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 13.5 feet while working from a ladder jack scaffold.  The center ladder that supported the ladder jack scaffold was used to access the working level.

Issued

Apr 26, 2012

Abate by

May 17, 2012

Penalty

Initial $4,200 · Current $250 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(7):     Scaffolds were not erected, moved, dismantled, or altered, by trained and experienced employees under the supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection, moving, dismantling or alteration:; Such activities were not performed only by experienced and trained employees selected for such work by the competent person:    Employees conducting residential roofing activities were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 13.5 feet while working from a ladder jack scaffold.  The employer erected the scaffold using a ladder that was not meant to be used as a ladder jack scaffold, bridged the scaffold with wooden planking, and placed the ladder that allowed for the footings to become displaced.  The employer was not qualified to erect, move, dismantle or alter the scaffold.

Issued

Apr 26, 2012

Abate by

May 17, 2012

Penalty

Initial $4,200 · Current $250 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1):     Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level.    Employees conducting residential roofing activities were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 13.5 feet.  An employee fell from a ladder jack scaffold while installing shingles.  No fall protection was utilized.

Issued

Apr 26, 2012

Abate by

May 17, 2012

Penalty

Initial $4,200 · Current $250 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(k)(5):     Scaffold platforms were bridged on to another.    Employees conducting residential roofing activities were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 13.5 feet while working from a ladder jack scaffold.  Wooden scaffold planks were bridged onto the metal planking of the ladder jack scaffold.

Issued

Apr 26, 2012

Abate by

May 17, 2012

Penalty

Initial $3,000 · Current $250 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(a):     The employer did not have each employee who performed work while on a scaffold trained by a person qualified in the subject matter to recognize the hazards associated with the type of scaffold being used and to understand the procedures to control or minimize those hazards:    Employees conducting residential roofing activities were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 13.5 feet.  The employer did not provide training to the employees on the hazards associated with working from the ladder jack scaffolding and procedures to minimize those hazards.

Issued

Apr 26, 2012

Abate by

May 17, 2012

Penalty

Initial $4,200 · Current $250 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(4):     Ladder(s) were used for purposes other than the purpose for which they were designed:    Employees conducting residential roofing activities were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 13.5 feet while working from a ladder jack scaffold.  A multi-purpose ladder that could fold in the center was used in lieu of a ladder manufactured to be used ladder jack scaffold component.