OSHA Inspection: CARLOS UVALLE

Issued

2012-10-24 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-10-29 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1200.00 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)    On or about 7/5/12, and at times prior thereto, employees were exposed to a fall from height of approximately 12 ft due to the metal tubular scaffold not being fully and properly decked while demolishing and repairing the roof and walls of the commercial building at the Clear Creek Shopping Center.

Issued

2012-10-24 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-10-29 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames, and uprights did not bear on base plates and mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:    On or about 7/5/12, and at time prior thereto, employees were exposed to a fall from height of approximately 12 ft, while using a metal tubular scaffold without base plates to demolish and repair the roof and walls of the commercial building at the Clear Creek Shopping Center.

Issued

2012-10-24 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-10-29 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $0.00 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. Frame was used as a means of access:    On or about 7/5/12, and at times prior thereto, employees were exposed to a fall from height of approximately 12 ft, while using a metal tubular scaffold without proper ladder access while demolishing and repairing the roof and walls of the commercial building at the Clear Creek Shopping Center.

Issued

2012-10-24 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-10-29 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Employees on scaffolds more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level by fall protection established in paragraphs (g)(1)(i)-(vii) of this section:    On or about 7/5/12, and at time prior thereto, employees were exposed to a fall from height of approximately 12 ft, while using a metal tubular scaffold without proper fall protection to demolish and repair the roof and walls of the commercial building at the Clear Creek Shopping Center.

Issued

2012-10-24 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-10-29 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2400.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(2): The employer did not have a competent person determine the feasibility and safety of providing fall protection for employees erecting or dismantling supported scaffolds:    On or about 7/5/2012, and at times prior thereto, employees were exposed to a fall hazard. Employees erected a metal tubular scaffold without supervision or guidance of a competent person. The metal tubular scaffold was used in their primary duty demolishing and repairing the roof and walls of a commercial building.

Issued

2012-10-24 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-10-29 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:    On or about 7/5/12, and at times prior thereto, employees were not properly trained while using a metal tubular scaffold while demolishing and repairing the roof and walls of the commercial building at the Clear Creek Shopping Center.

Issued

2012-10-24 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-10-29 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1200.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(1): Each employee on a scaffold was not provided with additional protection from falling hand tools, debris, and other small objects through the installation of toeboards, screens, guardrail systems, or through the erection of debris nets, catch platforms, or canopy structures that contain or deflect the falling objects.  For falling objects too large, heavy or massive to be contained or deflected, the employer did not place and secure such potential falling objects away from the edge of the surface from which they could fall:      On or about 7/5/12, and at times prior thereto, employees were exposed to falling equipment and materials while working underneath a metal tubular scaffoldwhile demolishing and repairing the roof and walls of the commercial building without toe boards.

Issued

2012-10-24 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-10-29 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(1): Each employee on a walking/working surface having an unprotected side or edge which was six or more feet (1.8m) or more above a lower level was not protected from falling by the use of guardrail systems, safety net systems, or personal fall arrest systems:    On or about 7/5/12, and at time prior thereto, employees were exposed to a fall from height of approximately 12 ft, while working at the edge of the commercial building at the Clear Creek Shopping Center demolishing and repairing the roof and walls.

Issued

2012-10-24 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-10-29 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1): Where a portable ladder(s) was used for access to an upper landing surface, the ladder side rails did not extend at least 3 feet (.9 m) above the upper landing surface to which the ladder is used to gain access; or, when such an extension is not possible because of the ladder's length, then the ladder was not secured at its top to a rigid support that will not deflect, and a grasping device, such as a grabrail, was not provided to assist employees in mounting and dismounting the ladder:    On or about 7/5/12, and at time prior thereto, employees were exposed to a fall from height of approximately 18 ft, while using a metal extension ladder to gain access to the roof of the commercial building with its rails not extended 3ft. above the landing at the Clear Creek Shopping Center.