OSHA Inspection: ISRAEL MARTINEZ

Issued

Aug 7, 2012

Abate by

Aug 10, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,400 · Current $2,400

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): Employees were not provided with eye and face protection equipment when machines or operations presented potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents:    This violation occurred on March 27, 2012, at a workplace located at 4740 Meadowview, Mesquite, Texas 75150; where at least seven (7) employees were using hammers and power-operated hand tools without the use of eye protection.

Issued

Aug 7, 2012

Abate by

Aug 10, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,400 · Current $2,400

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.300(b)(2): Belts, gears, shafts, pulleys, sprockets, spindles, drums, fly wheels, chains, or other reciprocating, rotating or moving parts of equipment, which were exposed to contact be employees or otherwise created a hazard, were not guarded:    This violation occurred on March 27, 2012, at a workplace located at 4740 Meadowview, Mesquite, TX 75150; where at least ten (10) employees were not protected from contacting the belts and pulleys of the air compressor.

Issued

Aug 7, 2012

Abate by

Aug 10, 2012

Penalty

Initial $4,200 · Current $4,200

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13): Each employee engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels was not protected by guardrail systems, safety net systems, or personal fall arrest systems, nor did the employer demonstrate that it is infeasible or creates a greater hazard to use these systems and develop and implement a fall protection plan which meets the requirements of paragraph (k) of 29 CFR 1926.502:    This violation occurred on March 27, 2012, at a workplace located at 4740 Meadowview, Mesquite, TX 75150; where employees, who were replacing the roofing materials on a residental house, were not protected from falling more than 6-feet to the lower level.

Issued

Aug 7, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,400 · Current $2,400

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1): When portable ladders were 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 was used to gain access:    This violation occurred on March 27, 2012, at a workplace located at 4740 Meadowview, Mesquite, TX 75150; where the side-rails of the extension ladder employees used to access the roof did not extend at least 3-feet above the upper landing surface.