OSHA Inspection: ERA CONTRACTING GROUP, INC.

Issued

2012-09-26 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $2000.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns, were not protected by protective helmets:    a) On or about May 11, 2012-Job site at 14-30 158 Street Beech Hurst, NY 11357         Employees exposed to overhead hazards from slate roof tiles.      WRITTEN ABATEMENT DOCUMENTATION IS NOT REQUIRED.

Issued

2012-09-26 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2400.00 · Current $2400.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds was not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports as specified in paragraphs 1926.451(b)(1)(i)-(ii:    a) On or about May 11, 2012-Job site at 14-30 158 Street Beech Hurst, NY 11357         Employees were exposed to tubular welded scaffold that was not fully planked.      WRITTEN ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS NOT REQUIRED.

Issued

2012-09-26 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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, sturcure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access:    a) On or about May 11, 2012-Job site at 14-30 158 Street Beech Hurst, NY 11357           Employee exposed to fall of 20-feet when climbing tubular welded frame scaffold       WRITTEN ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS NOT REQUIRED.

Issued

2012-09-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-11-08 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2800.00

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) On or about May 11, 2012-Job site at 14-30 158 Street Beech Hurst, NY 11357          Employees were not able to identify or correct scaffold hazards.      WRITTEN ABATEMENT DOCUMENTATION IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO 29 CFR 1903.19.