OSHA Inspection: DOM-REP DRYWALL, LLC

Issued

Dec 28, 2012

Abate by

Jan 8, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,400 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.25(a):  During the course of construction, alteration, or repairs,  debris was not kept cleared from work areas, passageways, and stairs, in and around buildings or other structures.    Jobsite:  The employee, engaged in drywall work in the mechanical penthouse on the roof of the building, was exposed to trip/fall hazards posed by the debris and material cluttering the work area/passageways around the elevator shaft.

Issued

Dec 28, 2012

Abate by

Jan 8, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.34(c):  Means of egress was not continually maintained free of all obstructions or impediments to full instant use in the case of fire or other emergency.      Jobsite:  A means of egress, from the mechanical penthouse work areas, was not maintained free of obstructions or impediments.

Issued

Dec 28, 2012

Abate by

Jun 3, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.503(a)(1):  The employer did not provide a training program for each employee potentially exposed to fall hazards to enable each employee to recognize the hazards of falling and the procedures to be followed in order to minimize these hazards:     Jobsite:  The employee, accessing the work areas around the elevator shaft in the mechanical penthouse, were not properly trained to recognize the hazards of floor holes or the procedures to be followed to minimize these hazards.

Issued

Dec 28, 2012

Abate by

Jan 8, 2013

Penalty

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

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(w)(2):  Scaffold casters and wheels were not locked with positive wheel and/or wheel and swivel locks, or equivalent means, to prevent movement of the scaffold while the scaffold was used in a stationary manner:     Jobsite:  The casters and swivels of the baker type scaffold, used by the employee engaged in drywall work, were not locked.

Issued

Dec 28, 2012

Abate by

Jun 3, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $0 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.    Jobsite:  The employees, working on the baker type scaffold with unlocked casters/swivels, were not properly trained to recognize the hazards related to this scaffolds or the procedures to control or minimize them.

Issued

Dec 28, 2012

Abate by

Jan 8, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,400 · Current $1,200 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(4)(ii):  Each employee on a walking/working surface was not protected from tripping in or stepping into or through holes (including skylights) by covers:     Jobsite:  The employee, engaged in drywall work on the elevator shaft walls, inside the mechanical penthouse, was not protected from stepping into open floor holes.