OSHA Inspection: ARNOLD CONSTRUCTION

Issued

Jun 19, 2013

Abate by

Jul 16, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,020 · Current $666 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13): Each employee engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels was not protected by guardrail systems, safety net system, or personal fall arrest system.     (a) Arnold Construction, 2195 Stony Hill Rd., Boulder, CO 80305; On and before May 22, 2013, the exposing employer failed to provide adequate fall protective measures to his employees as they worked on a roof which measured approximately 13 foot at the edge, with a 4:12 pitch.  Condition exposed employees to fall hazards of 13 feet.

Issued

Jun 19, 2013

Abate by

Jul 16, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,020 · Current $666 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1): When portable ladders where used for access to an upper landing surface, the ladder side rails did not extend at least 3 feet (.9 m) above the upper landing surface to which the ladder is used to gain access;     (a) Arnold Construction, 2195 Stony Hill Rd., Boulder, CO 80305; On and before May 22, 2013, the exposing employer failed to ensure that ladder side rails extended at least 3 feet above the upper landing surface to which the ladder was being used to gain access.  Condition exposed employees to fall hazards of approximately 13 feet as they used a metal protable extension ladder to gain acccess to the roof on which they were working.

Issued

Jun 19, 2013

Abate by

Jul 16, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,020 · Current $668 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 from falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns, were not protected by protective helmets.    (a) Arnold Construction, 2195 Stony Hill Rd., Boulder, CO 80305; On and before May 22, 2013, the exposing employer failed to provide his employees with adequate head protection as they worked in an area with potential hazards from falling objetcs resulting from the tear-off portion of the roofing project.  Condition exposed employees to potential struck-by hazards resulting from falling debris.

Issued

Jun 19, 2013

Abate by

Jul 16, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): Employees where not provided with eye and face protection equipment when machines or operations present potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents.  (a) Arnold Construction, 2195 Stony Hill Rd., Boulder, CO 80305; On and before May 22, 2013, the exposing employer failed to provide his employees with eye protection while usinig hand powered tools in construction activities which would require eye protection.  Condition exposed employees to eye hazards.