OSHA Inspection: HIGH QUALITY CONSTRUCTION UVW, LLC

Issued

May 15, 2013

Abate by

May 15, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees working in areas where there is a possible danger of head injury from impact, or from falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns, shall be protected by protective helmets.     Location: 760 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NY     On or About: 04/16/13     a) Employees were working below an active tubular welded frame scaffold and were not protected from falling objects..

Issued

May 15, 2013

Abate by

May 15, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $800 Reduced

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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.      Location: 760 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NY / Front of the building    On or About: 04/16/13      a) Employees used a Bosch 6 inch grinder and did not use eye/face protection.

Issued

May 15, 2013

Abate by

May 15, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,400 Reduced

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29 CFR 1926.300(b)(1): When power operated tools are designed to accommodate guards, they shall be equipped with such guards when in use.      Location: 760 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NY    On or About: 04/16/13      a) Employees used a Bosh 6 inch angle grinder that was not provided with a guard.

Issued

May 15, 2013

Abate by

May 15, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.404(b)(1): The Employer did not use either ground fault circuit interrupters as specified in paragraph (b)(1)(ii) of this section, or an assured equipment grounding conductor program as specified in paragraph (b)(1)(iii) of this section to protect employees on construction sites.      Location: 760 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NY / Front of the Building    On or About: 04/16/13      a) The Bosch 6 inch angle grinder was being used by the employees  and was not provided with a GFCI protection or an assured equipment grounding program.

Issued

May 15, 2013

Abate by

May 15, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(2): Frames and panels were not braced by cross, horizontal, or diagonal braces, or combination thereof, which would secure vertical members together laterally, and the cross braces were not of such length as would  automatically square.       Location: 760 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NY    On or About: 04/16/13      a) The 25 feet high tubular welded frame scaffold being used was missing several crossbraces and scaffod components.

Issued

May 15, 2013

Abate by

Jun 4, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,000 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.      Location: 760 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NY    On or About: 04/16/13      a) Employee were not trained to recognize hazards associated with the type of scaffold being used. An employee was using the cross braces of the tubular welded frame scaffold as means of access and/or egress. The tubular welded scaffold was not fully planked, lacked an access ladder, missing guardrails and was not braced to the building.

Issued

May 15, 2013

Abate by

Jun 4, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:   Location: 760 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NY  On or About: 04/16/13  a) Employees were trained to recognize fall hazards. Two employee were working by the edge of a wimdow without any fall protection while exposed to a potential fall of 15 feet to ground below.

Issued

May 15, 2013

Abate by

May 15, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,400 Reduced

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29 CFR 1926.501(b)(1): "Unprotected sides and edges." Each employee on a walking/working surface (horizontal and vertical surface) with an unprotected side or edge which is 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above a lower level was not protected from falling by the use of guardrail systems, safety net systems, or personal fall arrest systems.     Location: 760 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NY    On or About: 04/16/13      a) Two Employees were standing/working by the window edge without any fall protection

Issued

May 15, 2013

Abate by

May 15, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,400 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(a)(1): Each scaffold and/or scaffold component was not capable of supporting, without failure, its own weight and at least 4 times the maximum intended load applied or transmitted to it.        Location: 760 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NY     On or About: 04/16/13     a) The support frame for the work platform being used by employees on the 25 feet high tubular welded frame scaffold were made with 2 x 4 lumber tied with nylon rope and electrical cables to the scaffold frames.

Issued

May 15, 2013

Abate by

May 15, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds shall be fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports as follows:    Location: 760 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NY    On or About: 04/16/13    a) An employee was working on a 25 feet high tubular welded frame scaffold that was not fully planked.

Issued

May 15, 2013

Abate by

May 15, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(1):  Supported scaffolds with a height to base width (including outrigger supports, if used) ratio of more than four to one (4:1) were not restrained from tipping by guying, tying, bracing, or equivalent means, as set forth in subparagraphs (i) - (iii) of this paragraph.         Location: 760 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NY    On or About: 04/16/13    a) An employee was laying bricks from a 25 feet high tubular welded frame scaffold that was not restrained from tipping.

Issued

May 15, 2013

Abate by

May 15, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1):  When scaffold platforms are 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 another scaffold, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface shall be used. Crossbraces shall not be used as a means of access.       Location: 760 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NY    On or About: 04/16/13    a)  An employee was working from a 25 feet high tubular welded frame scaffold that lacked of access. Employees climbed scaffold frames and crossbraces to get to work platform.

Issued

May 15, 2013

Abate by

May 15, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(vii): For all scaffolds not otherwise specified in paragraphs (g)(1)(i) through (g)(1)(vi) of this section, each employee shall be protected by the use of personal fall arrest systems or guardrail systems meeting the requirements of paragraph (g)(4) of this section.    Location: 760 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NY    On or About: 04/16/13    a) An employee was working on a 25 feet high tubular welded frame scaffold and was not provided with  fall protection.  The employees were exposed to a potential fall hazard of up to 25 feet to the ground below.