OSHA Inspection: ADAMS' ROOFING

Issued

Mar 13, 2012

Abate by

Apr 24, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,400 · Current $480 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.20(b)(1):     The employer did not initiate and maintain such programs as may be necessary to comply with this part:    a/  At the job site, an effective safety and health program was not developed or implemented.

Issued

Mar 13, 2012

Abate by

Apr 24, 2012

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.20(b)(2):     The employer did not initiate and maintain a safety program which provides for frequent and regular inspections of jobsites, materials, and equipment to be made by a competent person:    a/  At the job site, frequent and regular inspections were not performed by a competent person designated by the employer.

Issued

Mar 13, 2012

Abate by

Apr 24, 2012

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.21(b)(2):     The employer did not instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his/her environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury:    a/  At the job site, employees were unfamiliar with the minimum safe work distance to an overhead power line was.

Issued

Mar 13, 2012

Abate by

Apr 24, 2012

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.503(a)(1):     The employer did not provide a training program for each employee who might be exposed to fall hazards:    a/  At the job site, exposed employee(s) were unable to identify the fall protection requirements for a flat, residential roof.

Issued

Mar 13, 2012

Abate by

Apr 24, 2012

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1060(a):     The employer did not provide a training program for each employee using ladders and stairways, that enabled each employee to recognize hazards related to ladders and stairways, and that trained each employee in the procedures to be followed to minimize those hazards:    a/  Exposed employee(s) were unable to identify the minimum safe height of side rails belonging to a portable, extension ladder that was used to gain access to a flat roof.

Issued

Mar 13, 2012

Abate by

Mar 20, 2012

Penalty

Initial $4,200 · Current $840 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/  At the job site, employee(s) engaged in falt, residential roofing work were not protected from falling through the use of conventional or in the alternative fall protection.  The height of the roof was approximately 20 feet.

Issued

Mar 13, 2012

Abate by

Mar 20, 2012

Penalty

Initial $4,200 · Current $840 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1):     Where portable ladders were used for access to an upper landing surface and the ladder's length allows, the ladder side rails did not extend at least 3 feet (.9 m) above the upper landing surface being accessed:    a/  At the job site, the side rails belonging to a portable extension ladder and used by employee(s) to gain access to the flat, residential roof were approximately one foot above.