OSHA Inspection: OHIO ROOF COMPANY, LLC

Issued

2013-08-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-08-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1400.00 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):     a)  Ohio Roof Company, LLC on or about July 30, 2013, at the address of 800 Lake Shore Dr. Port Clinton, OH: The employer in control of the job site (as prime contractor) failed to ensure subcontracted employees were adequately protected from falls after awareness of the hazard was known. These employees, installing new roofing material to a steep sloped roof on residential structure were exposed to falls of up to 27 feet to the ground below.    PER Final order amended to: 29 CFR Section 1926.503(c)(3): the employer shall retrain any affected employee who has already been trained where inadequacies in the affected employee's knowledge or use of fall protection systems or equipment indicate that the employee has not retained the requisite understanding or skill.    Employees who were working on a 27' high steep-slope roof displayed inadequacies in their fall protection systems and had not received retraining from the employer on the use of such systems.