OSHA Inspection: PARAMO DANIELA CONSTRUCTION, INC.

Issued

2013-08-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1870.00 · Current $935.00 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, or from electrical shock and burns, were not protected by protective helmets:    (a) Location - 132 Pleasant Street, Woburn, MA:    On or about 07/22/2013, an employee was not protected from over head hazards while working below roofers.

Issued

2013-08-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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) Location - 132 Pleasant Street, Woburn, MA:  On or about 07/22/2013, protective eye wear was not used by employees while operating nail guns.

Issued

2013-08-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3080.00 · Current $1557.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(5)(ii): The end of a platform greater than 10 feet in length extended over its support more than 18 inches and the platform was not designed and installed so that the cantilevered portion of the platform is able to support employees without tipping, or has guardrails which block employee access to the cantilivered end:    (a) Location - 132 Pleasant Street, Woburn, MA:    On or about 07/22/2013, a scaffold platform exceding ten feet in length extended beyond its supports greater than eighteen inches.

Issued

2013-08-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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, sturcure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access:  (a) Location - 132 Pleasant Street, Woburn, MA:  On or about 07/22/2013, employees were not provided proper access to a scaffold.

Issued

2013-08-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3080.00 · Current $1557.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(11): Each employee on a steep roof with unprotected sides and edges 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels was not protected from falling by guardrail systems with toeboards, safety net systems, or personal fall arrest systems:    (a) Location - 132 Pleasant Street, Woburn, MA:    On or about 07/22/2013, employees were not protected from falling while working on the roof of a commercial building greater than six feet above the lower level.    Or in the alternative:    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):     (a) Location - 132 Pleasant Street, Woburn, MA:    On or about 07/22/2013, employees were not protected from falling while working on the roof of a wood framed structure greater than six feet above the lower level.

Issued

2013-08-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.502(d)(16)(iii): Personal fall arrest systems, when stopping a fall, were not rigged such that an employee could not free fall more than 6 feet (1.8 m) nor contact any lower level:  (a) Location - 132 Pleasant Street, Woburn, MA:  On or about 07/22/2013, employees using personal fall arrest systems on the upper level of a roof were not protected from contact with the lower level of the roof.

Issued

2013-08-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.502(d)(21): Personal fall arrest systems were not inspected prior to each use for wear, damage, and other deterioration, and/or defective components were not removed from service:  (a) Location - 132 Pleasant Street, Woburn, MA:  On or about 07/22/2013, employees were using damaged fall protection harnesses.

Issued

2013-08-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3080.00 · Current $1557.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(5)(i): Non-self-supporting ladder(s) were not used at an angle such that the horizontal distance from the top support to the foot of the ladder was approximately one-quarter of the working length of the ladder:    (a) Location - 132 Pleasant Street, Woburn, MA:    On or about 07/22/2013, the ladders being used as the supports of a ladder jack scaffold were used at an improper angle.