OSHA Inspection: BK & G MASONRY & GENERAL CONTRACTORS INC.

Issued

Aug 10, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $840 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.95(a): Personal protective equipment, including personal protective equipment for eye, face, head, and extremities, protective clothing, respiratory devices, and protective sheilds, was not provided, used, or maintained in a sanitary and reliable condition, wherever it was necessary by reason of hazards of process or environment, chemical hazards, radiological hazards, or mechanical encountered in a manner capable of causing injury or impairment in the function of any part of the body through absorption, inhalation, or physical contact.    (a) Front side of new residential home located at 2557 Kolb Manor Circle, Marietta, GA 30008: Employee using a DeWalt 14" Chop Saw with Diamond Blade was not protected from face and/or eye injuries while operating the saw with no safety glasses or face sheild. The employee also operated the saw without a respirator, dusk mask or dusk control method.

Issued

Aug 10, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $840 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.300(b)(1): Power operated tool(s), designed to accomodate guards were not equipped with such guards when in use.    (a) Front side of residential home located at 2557 Kolb Manor Circle, Marietta, GA 30008: Employee was using a DeWalt 14" Chop Saw with a diamond mason blade with the guard stuck in the open position exposing employee to amputation hazards. The guard on the saw was damaged preventing it to move when operated.

Issued

Aug 10, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $840 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds were not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports as follows.    (a) Front side of residential home located at 2557 Kolb Manor Circle, Marietta, GA 30008: Employee was power-washing at heights of approximately 13'7" from the ground below on a tubular welded scaffold system which was not fully planked.

Issued

Aug 10, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $840 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, post, frames, and uprights did not bear on base plates and mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:    (a) Front side of the residential home located at 2557 Kolb Manor Circle, Marietta, GA 30008: An employee worked from a tubular welded scaffold system at heights of approximately 13'7" with the scaffold not erected with base plates at the foundation of the scaffold system.

Issued

Aug 10, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $840 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1): For scaffold platforms more than two feet above or below a point of access, portable ladders, hook on ladders, attachable ladders, ramps, walkways, integral prefabricated scaffold access, or direct access from another scaffold, structure, personal hoist, or similar surface were not used:    (a) Front side of the residential home located at 2557 Kolb Manor Circle, Marietta, GA 30008: Employee was exposed to fall hazards of 13'7" while working on a tubular welded scaffold platform which was not provided with a ladder for safe access. Employee climbed the Mason Type Tubular Welded Scaffold Frames as a means of access.

Issued

Aug 10, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $840 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Each employee on scaffolds more than 10 feet were not protected from falling to the lower level.    (a) Front side of the residential home located at 2557 Kolb Manor Circle, Marietta, GA 30008: An employee engaged in power-washing activities from a tubular welded scaffold platform at heights of approximately 13'7" was not provided with a fall protection system.