OSHA Inspection: SAM REDZEPI

Issued

Aug 20, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $800 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, were not protected by protective helmets.  a)  Left Side, Residential Structure:  Employees were working below an elevated scaffold platform and were not wearing protective helmets; thereby, exposing them to struck by hazards, on or about 5/7/2013.

Issued

Aug 20, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $800 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Platforms on working levels of scaffolds, were not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and guardrail supports.  a)  Third Level of Scaffold:  Working platform of scaffold, approximately 15' above ground surface, was not fully planked, on or about 5/7/2013.  b)  Second Level of Scaffold:  Working platform of scaffold, approximately 10' above ground surface, was not fully planked, on or about 5/7/2013.

Issued

Aug 20, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $800 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1): When scaffold platforms were more than 2 feet 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, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.   a)  Left Side, Residential Structure:  Employees used the end frame of the fabricated frame scaffold to access the working platform levels of scaffold, on or about 5/7/2013.

Issued

Aug 20, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,120 Reduced

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)  Third Level Scaffold:  Employees, engaged in construction activities, were working from a fabricated frame scaffold without means of fall protection; thereby, exposing employees to a fall hazard approximated to be 15' to lower level, on or about 5/7/2013.  b)  Second Level Scaffold:  Employees, engaged in construction activities, were working from a fabricated frame scaffold without means of fall protection; thereby, exposing employees to a fall hazard approximated to be 10' to lower level, on or about 5/7/2013.

Issued

Aug 20, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $800 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(1): Each employee on a scaffold was not provided with protection from 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)  Third Level of Scaffold: Plastic mixing tub containing concrete (scratch mix) was placed unsecured on a single wood plank approximately 18' above lower level; thereby, causing a struck by hazard to employees walking / working below, on or about 5/7/2013.

Issued

Aug 20, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $800 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.  a)  Left Side of Structure:  A three (3) level, nine (9) section fabricated frame scaffold was not fully cross braced, on or about 5/7/2013.