OSHA Inspection: GARDNER EXCAVATING, LLC

Issued

Dec 6, 2012

Abate by

Dec 18, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,400 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.651(d):     Employees exposed to public vehicular traffic shall be provided with, and shall wear, warning vests or other suitable garments marked with or made of reflectorized or high-visibility material.    Employees were exposed to vehicular traffic while parked in the roadway and crossing the road from bore pit to receiving pit. Warning vests or other high-visibility clothing was not worn.

Issued

Dec 6, 2012

Abate by

Dec 18, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,400 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.20(b)(1):     The employer did not initiate and maintain accident prevention programs as necessary to comply with this part:     Employees were exposed to a cave in hazard while working in an unprotected excavation and the employer did not initiate and maintain an accident prevention program.

Issued

Dec 6, 2012

Abate by

Dec 18, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.21(b)(2):     The employer did not instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe condition(s) and the regulation(s) applicable to the work environment to control or eliminate any hazard(s) or other exposure to illness or injury:    Employees were exposed to struck by hazards from motor vehicle traffic while parked in the roadway and crossing the road from bore pit to receiving pit and the employees had not received instruction from the employer to recognize and avoid the unsafe conditions found at the jobsite.

Issued

Dec 6, 2012

Abate by

Dec 18, 2012

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.200(g)(1):       Construction areas were not posted with legible traffic signs at points of hazards:    Employees were exposed to struck-by hazards from motor vehicle traffic while parked in the roadway and crossing the road from bore pit to receiving pit. Advanced warning was not given to approaching motor vehicle traffic of the work ahead, in accordance with Chapter 6G of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, 1988 Edition - Revision 3.

Issued

Dec 6, 2012

Abate by

Dec 18, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,700 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.652(a)(1):     Each employee in an excavation was not protected from cave-ins by an adequate protective system designed in accordance with paragraph (b) sloping and benching systems, or paragraph (c) support systems, shield systems, and other protective systems:    An employee was cutting the orange inner duct that had been recently bored under the road up to a depth of 7 feet 10 inches deep, and the excavation was not sloped, shored, or braced in accordance with the standard.

Issued

Dec 6, 2012

Abate by

Dec 18, 2012

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.651(k)(1):     Daily inspections of excavations, the adjacent areas, and protective systems were not made by a competent person for evidence of a situation that could have resulted in possible cave-ins, indications of failure of protective systems, hazardous atmospheres, or other hazardous conditions:    An employee was cutting the orange inner duct that had been recently bored under the road up to a depth of 7 feet 10 inches deep and the excavation was not inspected by a competent person.

Issued

Dec 6, 2012

Abate by

Dec 18, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.651(c)(2):     Means of egress from trench excavations. A stairway, ladder, ramp or other safe means of egress shall be located in trench excavations that are 4 feet (1.22 m) or more in depth so as to require no more than 25 feet (7.62 m) of lateral travel for employees.    An employee was cutting the orange inner duct that had been recently bored under the road up to a depth of 7 feet 10 inches deep and safe means of egress was not located in the excavation.