OSHA Inspection: WALDON CONSTRUCTION

Issued

2012-12-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-12-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.20(b)(1):  It shall be the responsibility of the employer to initiate and maintain such programs as may be necessary to comply with this part.    The employer did not have an effective safety and health program with specific work rules, competent person oversight, and employee training to govern employees activities while using scaffolds to frame the wooden facade at the worksite of 617 Main Street, Peoria, IL.

Issued

2012-12-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-12-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2400.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.21(b)(2):  The employer shall instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his work environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury.    The employer did not provide employee training in order to provide the employees with the knowledge to recognize construction safety hazards, as well as the procedures to follow in order to minimize or eliminate those safety hazards as evident by the fact that employees who were not provided and were not required to wear safety eyewear while using a pneumatic nailer to frame a wooden facade on a brick building.

Issued

2012-12-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-12-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1):     Employees shall be provided with eye and face protection equipment when machines or operations present potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents.    The employer did not provide and/or employees were not required to wear safety eyewear while exposed to struck-by hazards when using a pneumatic gun to frame a wooden facade on a brick building.

Issued

2012-12-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $0.00 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)    The employer did not ensure that a tubular welded scaffold used by employees to frame a wooden facade for a brick building was adequately planked in that 1 plank was used where 3 were required.

Issued

2012-12-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1):     When scaffold platforms are 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 another scaffold, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface shall be used. Crossbraces shall not be used as a means of access.      At the jobsite, employees working off a tubular welded scaffold while framing the wooden facade for a brick building were exposed to fall hazards of up to 30 feet in height from the working level in that safe access was not provided.

Issued

2012-12-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(7):     Scaffolds were not erected, moved, dismantled, or altered, by trained and experienced employees under the supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection, moving, dismantling or alteration:; Such activities were not performed only by experienced and trained employees selected for such work by the competent person.    At the jobsite, an employee was framing the wooden fa�ade for a brick building while working from a tubular welded scaffold, at a working level of up to 30 feet in height. The scaffold had not been assembled, erected nor inspected by a person with the competency recognize and correct hazards such as, but not limited to, inadequate planking, and guardrails.

Issued

2012-12-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $0.00 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.    At the jobsite, the employer did not provide adequate guardrails for employees framing a wooden fa�ade for a brick building while supported by a tubular welded scaffold.

Issued

2012-12-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.453(b)(2)(v):     A body belt shall be worn and a lanyard attached to the boom or basket when working from an aerial lift.  Note to paragraph (b)(2)(v): As of January 1, 1998, subpart M of this part (1926.502(d)) provides that body belts are not acceptable as part of a personal fall arrest system. The use of a body belt in a tethering system or in a restraint system is acceptable and is regulated under 1926.502(e).    At the job site, the employer did not provide nor require that a body harness and lanyard be used while an employee framed a wooden faade for a brick building while working from an aerial lift.

Issued

2012-12-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.453(b)(2)(iv):     Employees shall always stand firmly on the floor of the basket, and shall not sit or climb on the edge of the basket or use planks, ladders, or other devices for a work position.    At the jobsite, the employer did not ensure that an employee who was framing the wooden facade for a brick building and who was elevated up to 30 feet in height in an aerial lift stood firmly in the basket.

Issued

2012-12-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-12-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

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. At the jobsite, where an employee was framing a wooden fa�ade for a brick building, and where an employee was exposed to a fall of up to 30 feet in height from a tubular welded scaffold, and where there was no safe assess provided for the scaffold, the employer had not provided training to the employee on the hazards associated with working from scaffolding and procedures to minimize those hazards.    b. At the jobsite, where an employee was framing a wooden fa�ade for a brick building, and where an employee was exposed to a fall of up to 30 feet in height from an aerial lift, the employer had not provided training to the employee on the hazards associated with working from an aerial lift and procedures to minimize those hazards.

Issued

2012-12-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(b):     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 in question.      At the jobsite, employees were framing the wooden fa�ade for a brick building while working from a tubular welded scaffold, and aerial lift at a working level of up to 30 feet in height. The employees had not been trained by a by a person with the competency recognize and correct hazards such as, inadequate planking, guardrails and aerial lift fall protection requirements.