OSHA Inspection: ROBINSON MASONRY

Issued

2013-04-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-04-09 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1200.00 · Current $1200.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1):     The employer did not develop, implement, and/or maintain at the workplace a written hazard communication program which describes how the criteria specified in 29 CFR 1910.1200(f), (g), and (h) will be met: (Construction Reference: 1926.59)    On or about February 6, 2013, at the worksite located at 86 Tournay Circle, Little Rock, Arkansas, a Hazard Communication Program had not been developed for the benefit of employees using and/or exposed to hazardous chemicals/ingredients such as but not limited to Portland Cement, quartz crystalline silica and calcium carbonate contained in the Ash Grove Type N masonry cement being mixed and used by employees performing masonry application tasks, and silica generated from brick cutting tasks.

Issued

2013-04-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-04-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(1):     The employer did not have a material safety data sheet for each hazardous chemical which they used: (Construction Reference: 1926.59)    On or about February 6, 2013, at the worksite located at 106 Tournay Circle, Little Rock, Arkansas, material safety data sheets were not maintained for hazardous chemicals/ingredients such as but not limited to Ash Grove Type N Masonry Cement being mixed and used by employees performing masonry application tasks, and silica generated from brick cutting tasks.

Issued

2013-04-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-04-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1):     Employees were not provided effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment and whenever a new hazard that the employees had not been previously trained about was introduced into their work area: (Construction Reference: 1926.59)    On or about February 6, 2013, at the worksite located at 106 Tournay Circle, Little Rock, Arkansas, hazard communication training had not been provided for the benefit of employees using and/or exposed to hazardous chemicals/ingredients such as but not limited to Portland Cement, quartz crystalline silica calcium carbonate contained in the Ash Grove Type N masonry cement being mixed and used by employees performing masonry application tasks, and silica generated from brick cutting tasks.

Issued

2013-04-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-04-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $1600.00

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 February 6, 2013, at the worksite located at 86 Tournay Circle, Little Rock, Arkansas, employees using a 14" Chicago Electric Industrial Cut-off saw to cut bricks to size did not wear eye protection.  This condition exposed employees to the hazard of contact with dust particles and flying brick chips.

Issued

2013-04-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-04-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2800.00

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 February 6, 2013, at the worksite located at 86 Tournay Circle, Little Rock, Arkansas, supported scaffold at the north end of the home being built, the 1st level platform and 2nd level cantilevered platform that employees worked from to perform masonry activities were not fully decked.  This condition exposed employees to falls from elevation.

Issued

2013-04-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-04-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(5)(i):     The end of a platform 10 feet or less in length, extended over its support more than 12 inches:Note:  Does not apply if the platform was designed and installed so that the cantilevered portion of the platform was able to support employees and/or materials without tipping or had guardrails that blocked employee access to the end:    On or about February 6, 2013, at the worksite located at 86 Tournay Circle, Little Rock, Arkansas, supported scaffold at the north end of the home being built, the 1st level platform and 2nd level cantilevered platform that employees worked from to perform masonry activities extended approximately 20 inches over its support.  This condition exposed employees to falls from elevations.

Issued

2013-04-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-04-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $1600.00

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:    On or about February 6, 2013, at the worksite located at 86 Tournay Circle, Little Rock, Arkansas, supported scaffold at the north end of the home being built, employee dismounted from the 1st level platform and 2nd level cantilevered work platform and climbed down the end frames to lower ground level.  This condition exposed employees to slips and falls from elevation.

Issued

2013-04-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-04-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2800.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1):     Employees on scaffolds more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level by fall protection established in paragraphs (g)(1)(i)-(vii) of this section:    On or about February 6, 2013, at the worksite located at 86 Tournay Circle, Little Rock, Arkansas, supported scaffold at the north end of the  home being built, guardrails were not provided on the open ends of the 2nd level work platform, and employees were not protected from falling through the approximately 32" opening between the cantilevered platform and upper 2nd level platform.  These conditions exposed employees to an approximately 12 ft. fall from elevation.

Issued

2013-04-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-04-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $2000.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.702(i)(1):     Masonry saws were not guarded with a semicircular enclosure over the blade:    On or about February 6, 2013, at the worksite located 86 Tournay Circle, Little Rock, Arkansas, employee was allowed to use the 14" Chicago Electric Industrial Cut-off saw to cut brick to size without the use of a guard.  This condition exposed employees to contact with the rotating cutting blade.

Issued

2013-04-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-04-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(d)(1)(iii):     The employer did not identify and evaluate the respiratory hazard(s) in the workplace; including a reasonable estimate of employee exposures to respiratory hazards and identification of the contaminants chemical state and physical form: (Construction Reference 1926.103)    On or about February 6, 2013, at the worksite located at 86 Tournay Circle, Little Rock, Arkansas, employer had not evaluated employee brick cutting tasks to determine the need for respiratory protection.  An employee using a 14" Chicago Electric Industrial Cut-off saw to cut brick to size did not wear respiratory protection.  Employee was exposed to contact with dust particulates generated from the cutting tasks.