OSHA Inspection: R. C. MASONRY

Issued

Jul 12, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,200 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a):     Employees were not protected by protective helmets while working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or from falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns:        (a)Jobsite:  On or about June 25, 2012, an employee was not wearing a protective helmet (hard hat) while he was working below another employee who was dismantling the tubular welded frame scaffolding.

Issued

Jul 12, 2012

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $960 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2):     Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames,  or uprights did not bear on base plates, mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:        (a) Jobsite:  On or about June 25, an upright to the tubular welded frame scaffolding was bearing on nothing more than wooden planks.  There was nothing under the wooden planks to support them.

Issued

Jul 12, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,680 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.        (a) Jobsite:  On or about June 25, 2012, an employee was using the uprights and crossbracing to access different levels of the tubular welded frame scaffolding and to exit the scaffolding.

Issued

Jul 12, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,680 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(14):     Makeshift devices, such as but not limited to boxes and barrels, were used on top of scaffold platforms to increase the working level height of employees:        (a) Jobsite:  On or about June 25, 2012, an employee was tearing down a tubular welded frame scaffold while he was standing on an upside down 5 gallon plastic bucket.  This employee was not protected from falling and the fall hazard was approxiamtely 20 feet to the ground.

Issued

Jul 12, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,680 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(2):     The employer did not provide fall protection for employees erecting or dismantling supported scaffolds:        (a) Jobsite:  On or about June 25, 2012, an employee was dismantling a tubular welded fram scaffold and the employee was not protected from falling.  The fall hazard to the ground was approxiamtely 20 feet.

Issued

Jul 12, 2012

Abate by

Aug 2, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,680 Reduced

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) Jobsite:  On or about June 25, 2012, employees were working from a tubular welded frame scaffold and they were not trained by a qualified person to recognize hazards associated with the scaffolding and ways to control or minimize them.

Issued

Jul 12, 2012

Abate by

Aug 2, 2012

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1):     The employer did not develop, implement, and/or maintain at the workplace a written hazard communication program which describes how the criteria specified in 29 CFR 1910.1200(f), (g), and (h) will be met:        (a) Jobsite:  On or about June 25, 2012, the company did not have a hazardous communication program.  Employees work with Type N masonry cement which contains crystalline silica.

Issued

Jul 12, 2012

Abate by

Aug 2, 2012

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(1):     The employer did not have a material safety data sheet for each hazardous chemical in use:        (a) Jobsite:  On or about June 25, 2012, employees are working with Type N Masonry cement and the company did not  have the material safety data sheet for Type N Masonry cement.

Issued

Jul 12, 2012

Abate by

Aug 2, 2012

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h):     Employees were not provided effective information and training as specified in 29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1) and -2 on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment and whenever a new hazard was introduced in        (a) Jobsite:  On or about June 25, 2012, employees were not trained in the safety hazards related to working with Type N Masonry Cement.