OSHA Inspection: STONECRAFT & LANDSCAPING SERVICES LLC

Issued

Jul 22, 2013

Abate by

Aug 15, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $600 Reduced

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:    JOBSITE:  The employer had not developed and implemented a written Hazard Communication program where employees were required to work with and handle chemicals, such as (but not limited to) Iron Clad Type S Masonry Cement.

Issued

Jul 22, 2013

Abate by

Aug 15, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8): The employer did not maintain copies of the required material safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical in the workplace: (Construction Reference: 1926.59)  JOBSITE:  The employer did not maintain Material Safety Data sheets for chemicals, such as (but not limited to) Iron Clad Type S Masonry Cement, which employees were required to use.

Issued

Jul 22, 2013

Abate by

Aug 15, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h): Employees were not provided effective information and training as specified in 29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1) and (2) on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment and whenever a new hazard was introduced into their work area:  JOBSITE:  The employer did not provide information and training on Hazard Communication program to employees who were required to work with and handle chemicals, such as (but not limited to) Iron Clad Type S Masonry Cement.

Issued

Jul 22, 2013

Abate by

Aug 1, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $600 Reduced

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:    JOBSITE:      The employees, were not protected by protective helmets from falling objects while walking/working underneath overhead work.

Issued

Jul 22, 2013

Abate by

Aug 1, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $600 Reduced

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:    JOBSITE:  The platform of the fabricated frame scaffold, which an employee was laying concrete block was not fully planked.

Issued

Jul 22, 2013

Abate by

Aug 1, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $800 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, sturcure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access.    JOBSITE:  The fabricated frame scaffold platform from which an employee was laying concrete block to a building was not provided with a safe means of access.

Issued

Jul 22, 2013

Abate by

Aug 15, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $800 Reduced

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.    JOBSITE:  The fabricated frame scaffold from which an employee was laying concrete block was not erected under the supervision and direction of a competent person.

Issued

Jul 22, 2013

Abate by

Aug 1, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $800 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(14): Makeshift devices, such as but not limited to boxes and barrels, were used on top of scaffold platforms to increase the working level height of employees:    JOBSITE:  The employee laying concrete block worked from a makeshift plank/platform which was set on stacked concrete block set on the platform of the fabricated frame scaffold.

Issued

Jul 22, 2013

Abate by

Aug 1, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $800 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(2): Tubular welded frames and panels were not braced by cross, horizontal, or diagonal braces, or combination thereof, which would have secured vertical members together laterally:    JOBSITE:  The fabricated frame scaffold, which an employee was laying concrete block was missing cross braces.

Issued

Jul 22, 2013

Abate by

Aug 15, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $800 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.    JOBSITE:  The employee laying concrete block from the fabricated frame scaffold did not receive training and information to recognize and control hazards associated with scaffolds.

Issued

Jul 22, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.54(d): Standard laser warning placards were not posted in areas in which lasers were used:  JOBSITE:  The warning signs were not posted when a laser was in use.