OSHA Inspection: FREE FLO GUTTERS INC.

Issued

Jun 7, 2013

Abate by

Jan 18, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $420 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.20(b)(2): The employer did not initiate and maintain programs which provided for frequent and regular inspections of the job site, materials and equipment to be made by a competent person(s):    Location:  1808 Schulte Hill Drive, Maryland Heights, MO  63043    Free Flo Gutters Inc. allows workers to be exposed to hazardous conditions created by not conducting frequent or regular inspections of the worksite to ensure all workers were in compliance with OSHA standards.  The workers were exposed to a fall hazard that measured 11 feet, 11 inches at the northeast corner and 7 feet, 8 inches at the southwest corner as employees worked from the roof to install aluminum gutters without the use of an adequate fall protection system and/or fall arrest system.  In addition, workers were exposed to an electrical hazard as they removed and installed aluminum gutters within approximately 2 feet of the energized electrical service drop and weather head at the southeast corner of the residential structure.

Issued

Jun 7, 2013

Abate by

Jan 18, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $420 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.416(a)(1): Employees were permitted to work in proximity to electric power circuits and were not protected against electric shock by de-energizing and grounding the circuits or effectively guarding the circuits by insulation or other means:    Location:  southeast side of residence at 1808 Schulte Hill Drive, Maryland Heights, MO  63043    Workers were exposed to an electrical hazard as they removed and installed aluminum gutters within approximately 2 feet of the unprotected energized electrical service drop and weather head at the southeast corner of the residential structure.

Issued

Jun 7, 2013

Abate by

Jan 18, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $300 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13): Each employee(s) engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels were not protected by guardrail systems, safety net system, or personal fall arrest system, nor were employee(s) provided with an alternative fall protection measure under another provision of paragraph 1926.501(b):   Location:  1808 Schulte Hill Drive, Maryland Heights, MO  63042    Two gutter installers were removing the existing gutter system and installing a new gutter system from the edge of the approximate 4:12 sloped residential roof without the use of any fall protection system.

Issued

Jun 7, 2013

Abate by

Jul 3, 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:  The employer's training program did not enable each employee to recognize the hazards of falling at 1808 Schulte Hill Drive, Maryland Heights, MO, 63043 and did not train each employee in the procedures to be followed in order to minimize the hazards of falling at 1808 Schulte Hill Drive, Maryland Heights, MO, 63043.

Issued

Jun 7, 2013

Abate by

Jan 18, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $420 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1): Where (a) portable ladder(s) was/were used for access to an upper level landing surface and the ladder's length did not allow the ladder side rails to extend at least 3 feet (0.9 m) above the upper landing surface being accessed, the ladder was not secured at its top to a rigid support that will not deflect, and/or a grasping device was not provided to assist employees in mounting and dismounting the ladder:    Two employees gained access and egress by utilizing a portable ladder which did not extend at least 36" above the upper landing (roof).  The side rails measured approximately 24" above the landing.  This improperly positioned ladder was located at the roof rake along the south side of the residential structure. The fall hazard at the southwest eave measured approximately 7 feet, 8 inches.