OSHA Inspection: FIGUEIREDO BUILDERS INC.

Issued

Dec 20, 2012

Abate by

Dec 27, 2012

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $960 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns, were not protected by protective helmets:  Location - 74 Brandy Lane, Taunton:  On or about 07/03/12, employees were not wearing hard hats while working with a telehandler and an elevating work platform, installing vinyl siding on a residential construction project.

Issued

Dec 20, 2012

Abate by

Dec 27, 2012

Penalty

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

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.300(b)(1): Power operated tool(s), designed to accommodate guards, were not equipped with such guards when in use:  Location - Garage; 74 Brandy Lane, Taunton:  On or about 07/03/12, the lower blade guard on the DeWALT compound sliding miter saw was secured in the retracted position exposing an employee to potential serious hand or finger injuries.

Issued

Dec 20, 2012

Abate by

Dec 31, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $0 Reduced

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29 CFR 1926.304(i)(1): Each circular hand-fed ripsaw was not guarded by a hood which completely enclosed that portion of the saw above the table and that portion of the saw above the material being cut:  Location - Garage; 74 Brandy Lane, Taunton:  On or about 07/03/12, the circular saw blade on the Bosch table saw was missing exposing employees to potential serious hand or finger injuries.

Issued

Dec 20, 2012

Abate by

Dec 27, 2012

Penalty

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

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2)(iv): Front-end loaders and similar pieces of equipment were used to support scaffold platforms when they were not specifically designed by the manufacturer for such use:  Location - 74 Brandy Lane, Taunton:  On or about 07/03/12, a rough terrain telehandler not designed to support a Fork Mate scaffold platform, was used to elevate 2 employees during vinyl siding operations without the manufacturers' written approval.

Issued

Dec 20, 2012

Abate by

Dec 27, 2012

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.602(c)(1)(vi): Industrial truck(s) in use did not meet the applicable requirements of design, construction, stability, inspection, testing, maintenance, and operation, as defined in American National Standards Institute B56.1-1969, Safety Standards for Powered Industrial Trucks.  Location - 74 Brandy Lane, Taunton:  On or about 07/03/12, a rough terrain telehandler which was not designed to support a Fork Mate scaffold platform, was used to elevate 2 employees performing vinyl siding installation.

Issued

Dec 20, 2012

Abate by

Dec 27, 2012

Penalty

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

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2)(v): Fork-lifts were used to support scaffold platforms while the entire platform was not attached to the fork and the fork-lift was moved horizontally while the platform was occupied:  Location - 74 Brandy Lane, Taunton:  On or about 07/03/12, the Fork Mate platform was not equipped with chains as designed, for securely attaching it to the forks and carriage.

Issued

Dec 20, 2012

Abate by

Dec 27, 2012

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.602(c)(1)(viii): A lift truck, equipped with vertical only, or vertical and horizontal controls elevatable with the lifting carriage or forks for lifting personnel, did not have the following precautions to include (A) Use of a safety platform firmly secured to the lifting carriage and/or forks and (B) Means whereby personnel on the platform can shut off power to the truck. Location - 74 Brandy Lane, Taunton:  On or about 07/03/12, the Fork Mate platform was not equipped with chains as designed, for securely attaching it to the forks and carriage, nor did the platform have controls for shutting off power to the telehandler.

Issued

Dec 20, 2012

Abate by

Dec 27, 2012

Penalty

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

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:   Location - 74 Brandy Lane, Taunton:  On or about 07/03/12, a work platform was not inspected for defects by a competent person prior to assembling the platform to a rough terrain telehandler.

Issued

Dec 20, 2012

Abate by

Dec 27, 2012

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(a): The employer did not have each employee who performs work while on a scaffold(s) trained by a person qualified in the subject matter to recognize those hazards associated with the type of scaffold(s) being used and to understand the procedures to control or minimize those hazards.  Location- 74 Brandy Lane, Taunton:  On 07/03/12, The employer failed to ensure employees working on the Fork Mate were trained in the recognition of fall hazards and fall protection systems for the scaffold platform.

Issued

Dec 20, 2012

Abate by

Dec 27, 2012

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(b)(2): The employer did not have each employee involved in erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, maintaining, or inspecting a scaffold trained by a competent person to recognize any hazards associated with the work.    Location- 74 Brandy Lane, Taunton:  On 07/03/12, The employer failed to ensure employees were trained by a competent person in the recognition of hazards associated with assembling a Fork Mate platform on to a rough terain fork truck and properly securing it firmly to the fork carriage.

Issued

Dec 20, 2012

Abate by

Dec 27, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,680 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:  Location - 74 brandy lane, Taunton:  On or about 07/03/12, two employees working from an open-sided elevated work platform, were not protected from falling 15 feet to the ground below.

Issued

Dec 20, 2012

Abate by

Jan 17, 2013

Penalty

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

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.602(d): The employer did not certify that each operator had been trained and evaluated as required by paragraph 29 CFR 1910.178(l):  Location- 74 Brandy Lane, Taunton:  On 07/03/12, The employer failed to train and certify that employees in powered industrial truck operations as required by 1910.178 (l) for operating the Terex telehandler.

Issued

Dec 20, 2012

Abate by

Dec 27, 2012

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $960 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1052(c)(1)(i): Stairways having four or more risers or rising more than 30 inches (76 cm), whichever is less, were not equipped with at least one handrail:  Location - Stairways; 74 Brandy lane, Taunton:  On or about 07/03/04, each stairway leading to the floor below, from the second floor and the third floor, did not have any handrails.