OSHA Inspection: PRIYANKA GROUP INC.

Issued

Aug 1, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns, were not protected by protective helmets:  a) On or about March 28, 2013- at the site 80-15 256 Street Glen Oaks, NY 11004 .  Employees exposed to overhead hazards from framers up to 12-feet above next lower level from falling bricks.     ABATEMENT VERIFICATION IS NOT REQUIRED PURSUANT TO 29 CFR 1903.19.

Issued

Aug 1, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:  a) On or about March 28, 2013- at the site 80-15 256 Street Glen Oaks, NY 11004.  Employer did not provide eye protection for employees using a 14-inch Chop saw to cut bricks.     ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS NOT REQUIRED PURSUANT TO 29 CFR 1903.19.

Issued

Aug 1, 2013

Abate by

Aug 13, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.303(b)(2):The safety guard did not cover the spindle and end nut, and flange projections. The safety guard was not mounted so as to maintain proper alignment with the wheel:  a) On or about March 28, 2013- at the site of 80-15 256 Street Glen Oaks, NY 11004.   Employee using a D28715 14-inch chop saw  was operating it without the guard in place.   ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO 29 CFR 1903.19.

Issued

Aug 1, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Platform(s) on all working levels of scaffolds, were not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and guardrail supports such that the space between adjacent units, and the space between the platform and the uprights is not fullly planked or decked:  a) On or about March 28, 2013- at the site of 80-15 256 Street Glen Oaks, NY 11004.  Employee working on tubular welded frame scaffold 12-feet 8-inches above the next lower lover did not have 8-inches of his platform planked.   ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS NOT REQUIRED PURSUANT TO 29 CFR 1903.19.

Issued

Aug 1, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:   a) On or about March 28, 2013- at the site of 80-15 256 Street Glen Oaks, NY 11004.  Employee exposed to falls of 12-feet 8-inches while climbing tubular welded frame scaffold.     ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS NOT REQUIRED PURSUANT TO 29 CFR 1903.19.

Issued

Aug 1, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(4): Ladder(s) were used for purposes other than the purpose for which they were designed:  a) On or about March 28, 2013- at the site of 80-15 256 Street Glen Oaks, NY 11004.  Employee accessing the scaffold were using a step ladder in the folded position to climb 6-feet.    WRITTEN ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS NOT REQUIRED.

Issued

Aug 1, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

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:  a) On or about March 28, 2013- at the site of 80-15 256 Street Glen Oaks, NY 11004.  Employee exposed to falls of 12-feet 8-inches on tubular welded frame scaffold while laying brick.  ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS NOT REQUIRED PURSUANT TO 29 CFR 1903.19.

Issued

Aug 1, 2013

Abate by

Aug 27, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:   a) On or about March 28, 2013- at the site of 80-15 256 Street Glen Oaks, NY 11004.  Employee on tubular welded frame scaffold could not identify that he was missing 8-inches of planking, that he should not climb to reach the work platform or be without fall protection at 12-feet 8-inches above the next lower level.    ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO 29 CFR 1903.19.