OSHA Inspection: KEN ERVIN

Issued

2013-11-14 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-12-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $400.00 · Current $400.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1903.19(c)(1): The employer did not certify to OSHA, within 10 calendar days after the abatement date, that the cited violation had been abated:  Citations were issued to Ken Ervin dba River Valley Construction. on August 22, 2013 and the employer did not provide certification of abatement to the Area Office that the cited items had been adated.

Issued

2013-08-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-09-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1200.00 · Current $1200.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.20(b)(1):   The employer did not initiate and maintain accident prevention programs as necessary to comply with this part:   Employees were exposed to fall hazards and struck-by hazards and the employer did not institute a safety program.

Issued

2013-08-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-09-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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):    Employees were exposed to fall hazards and struck-by hazards and the employer did not ensure that frequent and regular inspections of the site were performed by a competent person.

Issued

2013-08-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-09-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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:   Employees working on the ground were exposed to being struck in the head by tools and debris from work being conducted above them and hard hats were not being worn.

Issued

2013-08-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-09-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $2000.00

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, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used:   Employees working from a tubular scaffold were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 10.5 feet to the ground because acceptable means of access was not provided.  Employees used cross bracing and an improper ladder to access the work platforms.

Issued

2013-08-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-09-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1):   Employees on scaffolds more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level by fall protection established in paragraphs (g)(1)(i)-(vii) of this section:   An employee working from a tubular scaffold was exposed to fall hazards of approximately 10.5 feet in that the scaffold was missing a top rail.

Issued

2013-08-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-09-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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:   Employees working from a tubular scaffold were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 10.5 feet and the employees were unable to recognize the hazardous condition as was demonstrated when employees climbed the cross bracing to access the upper working level of the scaffold as well as the lack of fall protection on the upper working level.

Issued

2013-08-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-09-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2800.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(10):   Each employee engaged in roofing activities on low-slope roofs with unprotected sides and edges 6 feet or more above lower levels, was not protected from falling by guardrail systems, safety net systems, personal fall arrest systems, or a combination of warning line system and guardrail system, warning line system and safety net system, or warning line system and personal fall arrest system, or warning line system and safety monitoring system.  Or, on roofs 50-feet (15.25 m) or less in width, each employee was not protected by use of a monitoring system:   Employees were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 17.5 feet while working on the roof of a building and fall protection was not utilized.

Issued

2013-08-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-09-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.503(a)(1):   The employer did not provide a training program for each employee who might be exposed to fall hazards:  Employees were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 17.5 feet while working on the roof of a building and the employees were not trained.

Issued

2013-08-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-09-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $2000.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1): Portable ladders were used for access to an upper landing surface and the ladder side rails did not extend at least 3 feet (.9 m) above the upper landing surface to which the ladder was used to gain access:   Employees were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 15 feet while accessing the roof of a building because the ladder's side rails did not extend far enough (3 feet) above the access point.

Issued

2013-08-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-09-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1060(a):   The employer did not provide a training program for each employee using ladders and stairways, as necessary, which would train each employee in the procedures to be followed to minimize hazards related to ladders and stairways:  Employees were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 15 feet while accessing the roof of a building because the ladder's side rails did not extend far enough (3 feet) above the access point and the employees were not trained.