OSHA Inspection: SUPERIOR MASONRY UNLIMITED, INC.

Issued

Sep 5, 2013

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): Eye and face protective equipment were not used when machines or operations presented potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents:    a. On or about July 25, 2013, an employee using a Makita 500F circular saw did not have on safety glasses, exposing himself to being hit by flying debris.

Issued

Sep 5, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,600 Reduced

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 July 25, 2013, the two level tubular welded scaffold system had multiple areas of the scaffold that were not fully planked, exposing employees to a fall hazards of approximately 13 feet 7 inches.

Issued

Sep 5, 2013

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:  a. On or about July 25, 2013, on a two buck tubular welded scaffold system, employees were not protected from an overhead hazard, in that there were no toeboards installed to protect employees fom falling debris.

Issued

Sep 5, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,600 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2)(ii): Unstable objects were used to support scaffolds or platform units:  a. On or about July 25, 2013, a two level tubular welded scaffold system was erected on an unstable object, in that the screw jack was nailed to a mudsill that was then placed on bricks, exposing employees to a collapse hazard.

Issued

Sep 5, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,500 Reduced

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.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access:  a. On or about July 25, 2013, employees used the end frames and crossbraces of the two level tubular scaffold system as a means of access/egress, exposing themselves to a fall hazards.

Issued

Sep 5, 2013

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,500 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. On or about July 25, 2013, employees performing siding and masonry operations from a two level tubular scaffold system were not protected from a fall hazard, in that there was no guardrail system on several areas of the scaffold system.

Issued

Sep 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 before being released for use by employees other than erection/dismantling crews:  a. On or about July 25, 2013, employees working on the tubular welded scaffold system were exposed to a fall hazard of approximatley 13 feet 7 inches because guardrails were not installed on all open sides nor on the ends of the platforms.