OSHA Inspection: CHILLEMI CONSTRUCTION CORP

Issued

2012-07-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-09-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2200.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(1): A written respiratory protection program that included the provisions in 29 CFR 1910.134(c)(1)(i) - (ix) with worksite specific procedures was not established and implemented for required respirator use:     a) 220 Madison Street, Hoboken, NJ.    Employee mixing cement on this jobsite was required to wear half mask respirator with cartridge. Employer did not develop or implement a written respiratory protection program.                            Violation observed on or about 07/12/2012.

Issued

2012-07-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-09-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(e)(1): The employer did not provide a medical evaluation to determine the employees ability to use a respirator, before the employee was fit tested or required to use the respirator in the workplace:     a) 220 Madison Street, Hoboken, NJ    Employer did not provide a medical evaluation to employees required to wear negative pressure 1/2 mask elastomeric respirators with a medical evaluation.                                 Violation observed on or about 07/12/2012.

Issued

2012-07-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-09-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(h)(2)(i): Respirators were not stored to protect them from damage, contamination, dust, sunlight, extreme temperatures, excessive moisture, and damaging chemicals or  were not packed or stored to prevent deformation of the face piece and exhalation valve:     a) 220 Madison Street, Hoboken, NJ.    Respirators were not stored and maintained so that their use does not present a health hazard. Employees were storing their respirators inside their tool boxes located on the jobsite.                               Violation observed on or about 07/12/2012.

Issued

2012-07-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-09-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(k)(1): The employer did not ensure that each employee can demonstrate knowledge of items in (i)-(vii)    a) 220 Madison Street, Hoboken, NJ.    An employee was not provided any respiratory training pior to using the respirator while mixing cement.                             Violation occurred on or about 07/12/2012.

Issued

2012-07-31 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2200.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.20(b)(1): The employer did not initiate and maintain accident prevention programs as necessary to comply with this part:      a)  220 madison Street, Hoboken, NJ.    An accident prevention program, was not developed to protect employees from, hazards including but not limited to falls, electric shock.                             Violatiion observed on or about 07/12/2012.

Issued

2012-07-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-09-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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) 220 Madison Street, Hoboken, NJ.    An employee working from a tubular frame scaffold was not provided training regrding scaffolds as evidenced by hazards observed which included, but were not limited to, missing crossbracing, safe means of access and egress, erecting tubular frame scaffold within 8 feet 4kv energized power line.                         Violation observed on or about 07/12/2012.

Issued

2012-07-31 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3080.00 · Current $1350.00 Reduced

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) 220 Madison Street, Hoboken, NJ.    Employee was working on the 5th level of a tubular frame scaffold that was not fully planked, thereby exposing the employee to a fall hazard of 35 feet.                                  Violation observed on or about 07/12/2012.

Issued

2012-07-31 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3080.00 · Current $1350.00 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.    a) 220 Madison Street, Hoboken, NJ.    Employee wa obsereved working on tubular frame scaffold on the 5th level that was missing top guardrail, thereby exposing employee to fall hazard of 35 feet to the ground.                               Violation observed on or about 07/12/2012.

Issued

2012-07-31 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(3): Scaffolds and scaffold components were not inspected for visible defects by a competent person before each work shift, and after any occurrence which could affect a scaffold's structural integrity:    a) 220 Madison Street, Hoboken, NJ.    Tubular frame scaffold was not inspected by a competent person prior to it being used or modified by employee on this jobsite i.e. missing cross braces, erected within 8 feet of 4kv energized power line.                                 Violation observed on or about 07/12/2012

Issued

2012-07-31 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3080.00 · Current $1350.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(6): Scaffolds were erected, used, dismantled, altered, or moved such that they, or any conductive material handled on them, could have come closer than the minimum distances established for specific voltages as set forth in the table in subparagraph (f)(6).    a) 220 Madison Street, Hoboken, NJ.    Employee was working from a tubular frame scaffold that was less then 1 foot from 4kv enegized power line.                                  Violation observed on or about 07/12/2012.    b) Employee was observed working from tubular frame scaffold where an enegized service drop from the main energized power line was in contact with the scaffold itself.                                  Violation observed on or about 07/12/2012.

Issued

2012-07-31 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3080.00 · Current $950.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(2): Tubular welded frames and panels were not braced by cross, horizontal, or diagonal braces, or combination thereof, which would have secured vertical members together laterally:    a) 220 Madison Street, Hoboken, NJ.    Crossbracing was not installed inside the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th levels of tubular frame scaffold to ensure stability.                                  Violation obvserved on or about 07/12/2012