OSHA Inspection: JAIME FERNANDEZ

Issued

Feb 1, 2013

Abate by

Feb 13, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $1,600

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees were not protected by protective helmets while working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or from falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns:       This violation occurred on October 25, 2012, at a workplace located at 2531 Tumberry Ct., Irving, TX 75063; where at least three (3) employees, who were walking and working underneath overhead work that was being performed from scaffolds, were not protected from head injuries by wearing hard hats.

Issued

Feb 1, 2013

Abate by

Feb 13, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(1): Each employee on a scaffold was not provided with additional protection from falling hand tools, debris, and other small objects through the installation of toeboards, screens, guardrail systems, or through the erection of debris nets, catch platforms, or canopy structures that contain or deflect the falling objects.  For falling objects too large, heavy or massive to be contained or deflected, the employer did not place and secure such potential falling objects away from the edge of the surface from which they could fall:    This violation occurred on October 25, 2012, at a workplace located at 2531 Tumberry Ct., Irving, TX 75063; employees, who were walking and working underneath overhead work that was being performed from scaffolds, were exposed to head injuries from falling tools and materials.

Issued

Feb 1, 2013

Abate by

Feb 13, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

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):    This violation occurred on October 25, 2012, at a workplace located at 2531 Tumberry Ct., Irving, TX 75063; where at least six (6) employees were working from a two-tier scaffold system that was not fully decked.

Issued

Feb 1, 2013

Abate by

Feb 13, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1): When scaffold platforms were 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 other scaffold, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access:    This violation occurred on October 25, 2012, at a workplace located at 2531 Tumberry Ct., Irving, TX 75063; where at least six (6) employees, who were working from a supported scaffold system, climbed the frame to access the work platform.

Issued

Feb 1, 2013

Abate by

Feb 13, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(14): Makeshift devices, such as but not limited to boxes and barrels, were used on top of scaffold platforms to increase the working level height of employees:    This violation occurred on October 25, 2012, at a workplace located at 2531 Tumberry Ct., Irving, TX 75063; a stack of bricks was used on top of scaffold platforms to increase the working level height of an employee.

Issued

Feb 1, 2013

Abate by

Feb 13, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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.    This violation occurred on October 25, 2012, at a workplace located at 2531 Tumberry Ct., Irving, TX 75063; where at least two (2) employees, who were working from the second tier of a scaffold, were not protected from falling to the ground level.