OSHA Inspection: POORAN BASDEO

Issued

Jun 15, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $0 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.    Jobsite; The employees, engaged in installing architectural roofing shingles on the 4 in 12 pitched roof with a 27 feet eave to ground fall distance was not protected from the hazard of falig to the ground by use of appropriate fall  protection systems, devices or equivalent and safe means of protection measures.

Issued

Jun 15, 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 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:    Jobsite; The employees, exposed to fall hazards while engaged in residential roofing work on a 4 in 12 pitched roof with a 27 foot eave to ground fall distance were not provided with training to recognize fall hazards and the procedures to minimize or eliminate fall hazards.