OSHA Inspection: MASTER PLASTER

Issued

Feb 27, 2013

Abate by

Mar 9, 2013

Penalty

Initial $4,200 · Current $2,520 Reduced

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):    On or about 12/04/2012, employees were exposed to a fall hazard from an elevation of approximately 13 feet to a concrete surface below while applying stucco to a commercial building on a tubular welded steel scaffold that was missing one of the four planks.

Issued

Feb 27, 2013

Abate by

Mar 9, 2013

Penalty

Initial $4,200 · Current $2,520 Reduced

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, sturcure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access:    On or about 12/04/2012, employees were exposed to a fall hazard from an elevation of approximately 13 feet to a concrete surface below while applying stucco to a commercial building on a tubular welded steel scaffold that was missing a means of accessing the upper first and second working surfaces.

Issued

Feb 27, 2013

Abate by

Mar 9, 2013

Penalty

Initial $4,200 · Current $2,520 Reduced

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:    On or about 12/04/2012, employees were exposed to a fall hazard from an elevation of approximately 13 feet to a concrete surface below while applying stucco to a commercial building on a tubular welded steel scaffold that was missing some form of fall protection.

Issued

Feb 27, 2013

Abate by

Mar 9, 2013

Penalty

Initial $4,200 · Current $2,520 Reduced

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:    On or about 12/04/2012, employees were exposed to a struck-by hazard from material and equipment on the upper level of an approximately 13ft high tubular welded steel scaffold while applying stucco to a commercial building.

Issued

Feb 27, 2013

Abate by

Apr 3, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,680 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:    On or about 12/04/2012, employees were exposed to a fall hazard from an elevation of approximately 13 feet to a concrete surface below and an overhead struck-by hazard through lack of hazard recognition training while utilizing a tubular welded steel scaffold while applying stucco to a commercial building.