OSHA Inspection: ROBERT PAJOREK

Issued

2013-02-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1500.00 Reduced

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 and laying paper on the roof of a residential house were exposed to the hazard of falling 15 feet 6 inches to the ground while working on a 4 in 12 low pitched roof without using guardrails, fall arrest systems or other equivalent means.

Issued

2013-02-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-03-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $500.00 Reduced

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, removing old roof shingles and laying paper were exposed to the hazard of falling were not trained to recognize the hazards of falling and minimize such hazards.

Issued

2013-02-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-03-12 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:    JOBSITE:  The employees who used a 16 foot aluminum extension ladder to have access to the roof of a residential house were not trained to recognize hazards and in the proper procedures to minimize the hazards associated with ladders.

Issued

2013-02-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1000.00 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:      JOBSITE:   The 16 foot aluminum extension ladder that was used by the employees to gain access to the roof of a residential house did not have its side rails extended 3 feet above the landing surface.

Issued

2013-02-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(5)(i):  Non-self-supporting ladder(s) were not used at an angle such that the horizontal distance from the top support to the foot of the ladder was 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 foot of the 16 foot aluminum extension ladder was more than one fourth (1/4) the working length of the ladder.

Issued

2013-02-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(10):  The tops of a non-self-supporting ladder were not placed with the two rails supported equally:    JOBSITE:   The top of the 16 foot aluminum extension ladder that was worked used for access to the roof by the employees did not support its two side rails equally onto the surface where it had been set.