OSHA Inspection: FLORIDA INNOVATION BUILDERS, LLC

Issued

Jul 5, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

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:    a. On or about April 25, 2013, all three levels of the scaffold system were not fully planked, exposing employees to a 16 feet fall hazard.    Abatement Certification and Documentation are not required

Issued

Jul 5, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames, and uprights did not bear on base plates and mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:    a. On or about April 25, 2013, the scaffold system legs and frames did not have base plates and mud sills, exposing employees to crushing hazards.    Abatement Certification and Documentation are not required

Issued

Jul 5, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(3): Supported scaffold poles, legs, post, frames, and/or uprights were not plumb and braced to prevent swaying and displacement:    a. On or about April 25, 2013, the scaffold system was not plumb in that two of the scaffold legs were in holes which left the scaffold system unlevel, exposing employees to a 16 feet fall hazard.    Abatement Certification and Documentation are not required

Issued

Jul 5, 2013

Abate by

Aug 21, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $0 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:    a. On or about April 25, 2013, the scaffold system was not erected, moved, dismantled or altered by a competent person.    Abatement Certification and Documentation are required

Issued

Jul 5, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(1): Each employee on a scaffold was not provided with additional protection from falling hand tools, debris, and other small objects through the installation of toeboards, screens, guardrail systems, or through the erection of debris nets, catch platforms, or canopy structures that contain or deflect the falling objects.  For falling objects too large, heavy or massive to be contained or deflected, the employer did not place and secure such potential falling objects away from the edge of the surface from which they could fall:    a. On or about April 25, 2013, all levels of the scaffold system did not have toeboards to protect employees from falling debris.    Abatement Certification and Documentation are not required

Issued

Jul 5, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

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 April 25, 2013, employees climbed the scaffold rungs because there was no ladder, exposing employees to a 16 feet fall hazard.  Abatement Certification and Documentation are not required

Issued

Jul 5, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level:  a. On or about April 25, 2013, the scaffold system did not have endrails, exposing employees to a 16 feet fall hazard.  Abatement Certification and Documentation are not required

Issued

Jul 5, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(4)(i): Guardrail systems were not installed along all open sides and ends of platforms:  a. On or about April 25, 2013, guardrails were not installed along all open sides and ends of the scaffold platform system, exposing employees to a 16 feet fall hazard.  Abatement Certification and Documentation are not required