OSHA Inspection: GEORGE BEAR

Issued

Dec 31, 2012

Abate by

Jan 9, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

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:    On or about December 3, 2012, at Building E, the employer did not ensure that employees walking and working at ground level where overhead hazards such as but not limited to stacked bricks and other materials, were protected by hardhats from impact of falling or flying overhead objects. This practice created conditions which exposed the employees to struck by hazards.

Issued

Dec 31, 2012

Abate by

Jan 9, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

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 December 3, 2012, on a scaffold, where the employer did not provide adequate planking or decking. Employees performing bricklaying activities on a two (2) story, approximate 6,408 square foot, 8 unit, multi-family apartment building, were working from a single 2"H x 10"W x12"L plan, on the 1st level of scaffolding approximately 6-1/2 feet above ground level. While the other employee was approximately 13 feet overhead on the scaffold frame stacking brick. This practice created conditions which exposed employee(s) to falling from an approximate elevation of 13 feet to the unfinished ground below.

Issued

Dec 31, 2012

Abate by

Jan 9, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

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 December 3, 2012, on a support scaffold, the employer did not ensure employees were not using crossbraces as a means of access from the scaffold platforms. An employee was using the crossbracing to climb down from the supported scaffold after stacking bricks for future bricklaying activities. This practice created a condition that exposed the employee to the hazard of falling from an elevation of approximately 13 feet to the unfinished ground below.

Issued

Dec 31, 2012

Abate by

Jan 9, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(vii):     Each employee on a scaffold, not otherwise specified in paragraphs (g)(1)(i) through (g)(1)(vi) of this section, more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above lower level was not protected from falls by the use of personal fall arrest systems or guardrail systems meeting the requirements of paragraph (g)(4) of this section.    On or about December 3, 2012, on a support scaffold, the employer did not ensure an employee stacking bricks on the 3rd level of a supported scaffold was protected from falling by the use of personal fall arrest system or guradrail system.   This practice created a condition that exposed the employee to the hazard of falling from an elevation of approximately 13 feet to the unfinished ground below.

Issued

Dec 31, 2012

Abate by

Jan 9, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

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 December 3, 2012, at Building E, the employer did not place and secure items such as but not limited to bricks, hand tools, debris and other objects away from the edge of the working surface to prevent them from falling. Employees working on the 2nd level of scaffold were not provided with additional protection through 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. This practice created conditions which exposed the employees to struck by hazards.