OSHA Inspection: SANTA FE BALLROOM

Issued

Sep 5, 2012

Abate by

Sep 12, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $840 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1)(i): Each platform unit (e.g., scaffold plank, fabricated plank, fabricated deck, or fabricated platform) was not installed so that the space between adjacent units and the space between the platform and the uprights were no more than 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide, except where the employer can demonstrate that a wider space is necessary:    On 06/12/2012, at an establishment located at 13201 C.F. Hawn Freeway, Dallas, Texas; at the front of the building, employees working from a tubular welded frame scaffold when plastering a wall were exposed to a fall hazard. The working platforms were not fully planked and consisted of two planks each.

Issued

Sep 5, 2012

Abate by

Sep 12, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $600 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, sturcure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access:    On 06/12/2012, at an establishment located at 13201 C.F. Hawn Freeway, Dallas, Texas; at the front of the building, on a three-tier tubular welded frame scaffold, employees climbing scaffold end frames were exposed to a fall hazard.

Issued

Sep 5, 2012

Abate by

Sep 12, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $840 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:    On 06/12/2012, at an establishment located at 13201 C.F. Hawn Freeway, Dallas, Texas; at the front of the building, employees working from a tubular welded frame scaffold when plastering a wall were exposed to a fall hazard. The scaffold was not provided with guardrails and the employees did not wear personal fall protection.

Issued

Sep 5, 2012

Abate by

Sep 12, 2012

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $480 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:    On 06/12/2012, at an establishment located at 13201 C.F. Hawn Freeway, Dallas, Texas; at the front of the building, an 8 x 3 tier tubular welded frame scaffold was not erected under the supervision of a competent person.

Issued

Sep 5, 2012

Abate by

Sep 12, 2012

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(2): All brace connections were not secured:    On 06/12/2012, at an establishment located at 13201 C.F. Hawn Freeway, Dallas, Texas; at the front of the building, employees plastering a wall worked from an 8 X 3 tier tubular welded frame scaffold that not leveled and square.