OSHA Inspection: BLISS DRYWALL SPECIALTIES INC.

Issued

2013-05-02 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-05-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1200.00 · Current $720.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): Eye and face protective equipment were not used when machines or operations presented potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents:     On or about January 17, 2013, at the above addressed jobsite, the employer did not ensure that employees, who were using a drill and a circular saw when installing plywood, wore eye or face protection.

Issued

2013-05-02 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-05-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1200.00 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 January 17, 2013, at the above addressed jobsite, the employer did not ensure that a scaffold being used by employees who were working 14 feet above lower level was fully planked or decked.

Issued

2013-05-02 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-05-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1200.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames,  or uprights did not bear on base plates, mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:    On or about January 17, 2013, at the above addressed jobsite, the employer did not ensure the legs of a tubular scaffold used by the employees had mud sills or base plates.

Issued

2013-05-02 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-05-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1200.00 · Current $720.00 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, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access.      On or about January 17, 2013, at the above addressed jobsite, the employer did not ensure that employees had an appropriate means of access or egress to the scaffold. Employees utilized the cross braces to climb to the upper level of the scaffold.

Issued

2013-05-02 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-05-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1200.00 Reduced

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 January 17, 2013, at the above addressed jobsite, employees were exposed to a 14-foot fall hazard while working from a scaffold without the use of a conventional fall protection system.

Issued

2013-05-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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:   On or about January 17, 2013, at the above addressed jobsite, a scaffold that was being used by employees was not erected under the supervision of a competent person.

Issued

2013-05-02 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-05-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(b): The employer did not have each employee involved in erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, maintaining, or inspecting a scaffold trained by a competent person to recognize any hazards associated with the work in question.  On or about January 17, 2013, at the above addressed jobsite, the employer did not ensure that employees erecting a scaffold were trained.