OSHA Inspection: KEN BLACK CONSTRUCTION

Issued

Jun 28, 2012

Abate by

Jul 3, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(10):     Each employee engaged in roofing activities on low-slope roofs with unprotected sides and edges 6 feet or more above lower levels, was not protected from falling by guardrail systems, safety net systems, personal fall arrest systems, or a combination of warning line system and fuardrail system, warning line system and safety net system, or warning line system and personal fall arrest system, or warning line system and safety monitoring system.  Or, on roofs 50-feet (15.25 m) or less in width, each employee was not protected by use of a monitoring system:      (a)  On or about 06/14/12 - 4167 Center Point Road, Birmingham, AL, employees were not provided fall protection.

Issued

Jun 28, 2012

Abate by

Jul 6, 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:      (a)  On or about 06/14/12 - 4167 Center Point Road, Birmingham, AL, employees had not been trained to recognize, control, minimize or eliminate hazards associated with the work being performed.

Issued

Jun 28, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1):     Portable ladders were used for access to an upper landing surface and the ladder side rails did not extend at least 3 feet (.9 m) above the upper landing surface to which the ladder was used to gain access:    (a)  On or about 06/14/12 - 4167 Center Point Road, Birmingham, AL, the side rails of the 24-foot extension ladder used by employees to access the roof did not extend at least 3 feet above the landing.

Issued

Jun 28, 2012

Abate by

Jul 6, 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, as necessary, which would enable each employee to recognize hazards related to ladders and stairways and train each employee in the procedures to be followed to minimize these hazards:    (a)  On or about 06/14/12- 4167 Center Point Road, Birmingham, AL, employees had not been trained to recognize, control, minimize and/or eliminate hazards associated with the work being performed using extension ladders.