OSHA Inspection: EMINI CONSTRUCTION, LLC

Issued

Aug 17, 2012

Abate by

Aug 24, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,400 · Current $1,080 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): Eye and face protective equipment were not used when machines or operations presented potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents.    Worksite: The employee who was chipping concrete and brick with an electric chipping hammer was not wearing eye protection.

Issued

Aug 17, 2012

Abate by

Aug 24, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,400 · Current $1,080 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.        Worksite: The employee who was accessing the metal frame scaffold platform at approximately 13 feet above the ground was not provided with a ladder or safe means of access to the platform.

Issued

Aug 17, 2012

Abate by

Sep 10, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,400 · Current $1,080 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.        Worksite: The metal frame scaffold that the employee was working from at approximately 13 feet above the ground was not erected under the supervision of a person competent in scaffold erection.

Issued

Aug 17, 2012

Abate by

Sep 10, 2012

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(a)(1): The employer failed to have each employee who performs work while on a scaffold trained regarding the nature of any electrical hazards, fall hazards and falling object hazards in the work area.        Worksite: The employee who was working from the metal frame scaffold without fall protection at a height of approximately 13 feet above the ground was not trained to recognize the hazards associated with the type of scaffold being used.

Issued

Aug 17, 2012

Abate by

Aug 24, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,260 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(vii): Each employee on a scaffold, not otherwise specified in paragraphs (g)(1)(i) through (g)(1)(vi) of this section, more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above lower level was not protected from falls by the use of personal fall arrest systems or guardrail systems meeting the requirements of paragraph (g)(4) of this section.        Worksite: The employee who was working from the metal frame scaffold platform at a height of approximately 13 feet above the ground was not protected from fall hazards by the use of guardrails or a personal fall arrest system.

Issued

Aug 17, 2012

Abate by

Aug 24, 2012

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $720 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(2): Frames and panels were not braced by cross, horizontal, or diagonal braces, or combination thereof, which would secure vertical members together laterally:    Worksite: The metal frame scaffold that the employee was working from was missing cross bracing that caused the scaffold to be unstable and out of plumb.