OSHA Inspection: SGR SIDING AND GUTTERS LLC

Issued

2013-02-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-02-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1200.00 · Current $1200.00

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 construction debris, such as (but not limited to) broken pieces of old roof shingles and pieces of copper, were scattered on the ground in and around the walking/working area.

Issued

2013-02-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1200.00 · Current $1200.00

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:    JOBSITE:  The employee, cleaning debris on the ground underneath the overhead work, was not protected by protective helmet from falling objects.

Issued

2013-02-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-02-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $2000.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(2)(i):  Each ladder jack scaffold, top plate bracket scaffold, roof bracket scaffold, and pump jack scaffold was not at least 12 inches (30 cm) wide:     JOBSITE:  The platform of the ladder jack scaffold used by an employee was 10 inches wide.

Issued

2013-02-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-02-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $2000.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2):  Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames, and uprights did not bear on base plates and mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:    JOBSITE:  The feet of the ladders of the ladder jack scaffold, used by an employee to remove old roof shingles, were not placed on solid sound surfaces.

Issued

2013-02-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-02-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $2000.00

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.    JOBSITE:  The ladder jack scaffold from which an employee was removing old roof shingles, was not erected under the supervision and direction of a competent person.

Issued

2013-02-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $2000.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(i):  Each employee on a boatswains' chair, catenary scaffold, float scaffold, needle beam scaffold, or ladder jack scaffold was not protected by a personal fall arrest system:    JOBSITE:  The employee, removing old roof shingles while working on the platform of the ladderjack scaffold was not protected from the hazard of falling 10 feet 5 inches to the ground by use of appropriate personal fall arrest system or equivalent.

Issued

2013-02-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-02-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $2000.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(k)(2):  All ladders used to support ladder jack scaffolds did not meet the requirements of subpart X of this part -- Stairways and Ladders, except that job-made ladders shall not be used to support ladder jack scaffolds:    JOBSITE:  The horizontal distances from the vertical support to the base of both the 14 foot aluminum ladder supports of the ladder jack scaffold were more than one fourth (1/4) of the working length of the ladders.

Issued

2013-02-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-02-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(5)(i):  Non-self-supporting ladders were not used at an angle such than the horizontal distance from the top support to the foot of the ladder way approximately one-quarter of the working length of the ladder (the distance along the ladder between the foot and the top support:    JOBSITE:  The horizontal distance from the vertical support to the base of the 28 foot aluminum extension ladder which was used by the employees to have access to the roof of the house, was more than one fourth (1/4) of the working length of the ladder.

Issued

2013-02-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-02-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $2000.00

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:    JOBSITE:  The employee, removing old roofing shingles while working on the platform of the ladder jack scaffold did not receive training and information with ladder jack scaffolds.

Issued

2013-02-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-02-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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 employees, exposed to the hazard of falls while removing old roof shingles from the 6 in 12 high pitched roof of a residential house were not provided with information and training to control and minimize such hazards.

Issued

2013-02-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-02-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1060(a):  The employer did not provide a training program for each employee using ladders and stairways, as necessary, which would enable each employee to recognize hazards related to ladders and stairways and train each employee in the procedures to be followed to minimize these hazards.  Note:  29 CFR 1926.21(b)(2) may be cited as an additional violation to support this requirement.    JOBSITE:  The employees using an aluminum 28 foot extension ladder to have access to the roof of a house had not received information and training regarding the safe use and handling of the ladder.

Issued

2013-02-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $2000.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13):  Each employee(s) engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels were not protected by guardrail systems, safety net system, or personal fall arrest system, nor were employee(s) provided with an alternative fall protection measure under another provision of paragraph 1926.501 (b):     JOBSITE:  The employees, removing old roof shingles from the 6 in 12 high pitched roof were not protected from the hazard of falling between 11 feet 10 inches to 21 feet to the ground by use of personal fall arrest systems, guard rail system, or equivalent.