OSHA Inspection: UNIVERSAL SIDING, LLC

Issued

Mar 8, 2012

Penalty

Initial $9,240 · Current $0 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:    a)  40 Haggerty Drive, West Orange, NJ.    Employee is exposed to approximately 16 foot falls to the ground below from potential scaffold collapse or failure as the East side scaffold pole has as its footing two bricks resting on soil which is not a sound support for this Alumapole scaffold system.                                                      Violation observed on or about 02/23/2012.     UNIVERSAL SIDING, LLC WAS PREVIOUSLY CITED FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARD OR ITS EQUIVALENT STANDARD WHICH WAS CONTAINED IN OSHA INSPECTION NUMBER 314557752, CITATION NUMBER 1, ITEM NUMBER 2(a),  ISSUED ON 10/14/2010, FINAL ORDER DATE 11/05/2010, WITH RESPECT TO A WORKPLACE LOCATED AT HAGGERTY DRIVE & HIMSL COURT, WEST ORANGE, NJ.    To abate this violation, the employer must ensure that its employees when working on scaffolds are protected from falls due to potential scaffold collapse by ensuring that scaffold footings are sound and capable of supporting the scaffold when on soil using for example, 2 plates of 1 foot x 1 foot by 3/4 inch plywood nailed together forming a sill plate and the Mud Sill, that comes with the Alumapole scaffolding, shall be spiked to the sill plate.    Pursuant to 29 CFR 1903.19(d), the employer must submit documents describing the steps it is taking to ensure compliance, including a description of how these steps will ensure that its employees working on scaffolds will be protected from scaffold collapse by ensuring sound scaffold footings, within 5 days of the date it receives this citation.

Issued

Mar 8, 2012

Penalty

Initial $9,240 · Current $0 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.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access.    a)  40 Haggerty Drive, West Orange, NJ.    Employee is exposed to 16 foot falls to the ground below as he does not have proper scaffold access as he is disembarking from the scaffold by sliding down the vertical pole of the Alumapole scaffolding system.                                                         Violation observed on or about 02/23/2012.     UNIVERSAL SIDING, LLC WAS PREVIOUSLY CITED FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARD OR ITS EQUIVALENT STANDARD WHICH WAS CONTAINED IN OSHA INSPECTION NUMBER 314557752, CITATION NUMBER 1, ITEM NUMBER 3,  ISSUED ON 10/14/2010, FINAL ORDER DATE 11/05/2010, WITH RESPECT TO A WORKPLACE LOCATED AT HAGGERTY DRIVE & HIMSL COURT, WEST ORANGE, NJ.    To abate this violation, the employer must ensure that its employees are provided with safe access to and from scaffold platforms when these platforms are more than 2 feet above or below a point of access by using, for example, an extension ladder.    Pursuant to 29 CFR 1903.19(d), the employer must submit documents describing the steps it is taking to ensure compliance, including a description of how these steps will ensure that employees have safe access to scaffold platforms which are 2 feet above or below a point of access, within 5 days of the date it receives this citation.

Issued

Mar 8, 2012

Penalty

Initial $9,240 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1):   Employees on scaffolds more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level by fall protection established in paragraphs (g)(1)(i)-(vii) of this section:    a)  40 Haggerty Drive, West Orange, NJ.    Employee is exposed to approximately 16 foot falls to the ground below as proper methods for fall protection on an Alumapole pump jack scaffold are not in use.                                                        Violation observed on or about 02/23/2012.    UNIVERSAL SIDING, LLC WAS PREVIOUSLY CITED FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARD OR ITS EQUIVALENT STANDARD WHICH WAS CONTAINED IN OSHA INSPECTION NUMBER 314557752, CITATION NUMBER 1, ITEM NUMBER 4,  ISSUED ON 10/14/2010, FINAL ORDER DATE 11/05/2010, WITH RESPECT TO A WORKPLACE LOCATED AT HAGGERTY DRIVE & HIMSL COURT, WEST ORANGE, NJ.    To abate this violation, the employer must ensure that its employees are provided with fall protection methods such as guardrails or personal fall arrest systems when they are working on scaffolds and are more than 10 feet above a lower level.    Pursuant to 29 CFR 1903.19(d), the employer must submit documents describing the steps it is taking to ensure compliance, including a description of how these steps will ensure that fall protection is provided for employees when they are working on scaffolds more than 10 feet above a lower level, within 5 days of the date it receives this citation.

Issued

Mar 8, 2012

Abate by

Mar 29, 2012

Penalty

Initial $5,280 · Current $0 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.    a)  40 Haggerty Drive, West Orange, NJ and at the Corporate Offices at 51 Fernwood Terrace, Elizabeth, NJ.    Laborer doing siding work using an Alumapole scaffold system has no instruction on proper scaffold use and hazard recognition by his employer exposing him to injury from falls or scaffold collapse.                                                Violation observed on or about 02/23/2012.    UNIVERSAL SIDING, LLC WAS PREVIOUSLY CITED FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARD OR ITS EQUIVALENT STANDARD WHICH WAS CONTAINED IN OSHA INSPECTION NUMBER 314557752, CITATION NUMBER 1, ITEM NUMBER 1(b),  ISSUED ON 10/14/2010, FINAL ORDER DATE 11/05/2010, WITH RESPECT TO A WORKPLACE LOCATED AT HAGGERTY DRIVE & HIMSL COURT, WEST ORANGE, NJ.    To abate this violation, the employer must ensure that its employees who use scaffolding are provided with instruction on Alumapole scaffold system hazard recognition and safe use so as to lesson the chance for employee falls or scaffold collapse.    Pursuant to 29 CFR 1903.19(d), the employer must submit documents describing the steps it is taking to ensure compliance, including a description of how these steps will ensure that employees who use the Alumapole scaffold system are provided with instruction on Alumapole scaffold system hazard recognition and safe use so as to lesson the chance for falls or scaffold collapse, within 5 days of the date it receives this citation.