OSHA Inspection: COUNTRY BOYZ HEATING/COOLING & REFRIGERATION, INC.

Issued

Dec 5, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,200 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(10): Each employee engaged in roofing activities on low-slope roofs with unprotected sides and edges 6 feet or more above lower levels, was not protected from falling by guardrail systems, safety net systems, personal fall arrest systems, or a combination of warning line system and guardrail system, warning line system and safety net system, or warning line system and personal fall arrest system, or warning line system and safety monitoring system.  Or, on roofs 50-feet (15.25 m) or less in width, each employee was not protected by use of a monitoring system:      (a)  On or about 11/15/12 - 1125 Roebuck Parkway East, Birmingham, AL, employees repairing the roof were not protected from falling.

Issued

Dec 5, 2012

Abate by

Dec 17, 2012

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:      (a)  On or about 11/15/12 - 1125 Roebuck Parkway East, Birmingham, AL, employees had not been trained to recognize, control, minimize or eliminate hazards associated with the work being performed.

Issued

Dec 5, 2012

Abate by

Dec 17, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,200 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1): Where portable ladders were used for access to an upper landing surface and the ladder's length allows, the ladder side rails did not extend at least 3 feet (.9 m) above the upper landing surface being accessed:      (a)  On or about 11/15/12 - 1125 Roebuck Parkway East, Birmingham, AL, the side rails of the 28-foot portable extension ladder did not extend at least 3 feet above the upper landing.

Issued

Dec 5, 2012

Abate by

Dec 17, 2012

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:      (a)  On or about 11/15/12 - 1125 Roebuck Parkway East, Birmingham, AL, employees using the portable 28-foot extension ladder had not been trained to recognize, control, minimize or eliminate hazards associated with the use of ladders.