OSHA Inspection: CASTSTONE SOLUTIONS COMPANY

Issued

2014-01-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-01-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1200.00 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:    This violations was observed on or about July 30, 2013 and July 31, 2013, at a workplace located at 3301 N. 4th Street, Longview, Texas 75605; where the employer used only a single scaffold pick on each scaffold frame, and exposed employees to the hazard of falling to the lower level.

Issued

2014-01-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-01-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(10): Scaffold components manufactured by different manufacturers were intermixed, and the components did not fit together without force and the scaffold's structural integrity was maintained by the user:   The violation was observed on or about July 31, 2013, at a workplace located at 3301 N. 4th Street, Longview, Texas 75605; where the employer used cleated scaffold picks on scaffold frames which prevented the cleats at one end of the picks from being engaged, and exposed employees to the hazard of falling to the lower level.

Issued

2014-01-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-01-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1680.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1): When scaffold platforms were more than 2 feet 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 another scaffold, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface were not used:    This violation was observed on or about July 30, 2013, and July 31, 2013, at a workplace located at 3301 N. 4th Street, Longview, Texas 75605; where employees climbed walk-through scaffold end frames to access and egress to and from work platforms.

Issued

2014-01-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-01-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1051(a): A stairway or ladder was not provided at all personnel points of access where there is a break in elevation of 19 inches (48 cm) or more, and no ramp, runway, sloped embankment, or personnel hoist was provided:  This violation was observed on or about July 30, 2013, and July 31, 2013, at a workplace located at 3301 N. 4th Street, Longview, Texas 75605; where employees climbed the end frames of a walk-through scaffold to acess a roof.

Issued

2014-01-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-01-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1680.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(2): Frames and panels were not braced by cross, horizontal, or diagonal braces, or combination thereof, which secure vertical members together laterally:     The violation was observed on or about July 30, 2013 and July 31, 2013, at a workplace located at 3301 N. 4th Street, Longview, Texas 75605; where the employer by not bracing the end frames work face of the scaffold, exposed employees to the hazards of falling to the lower levels, and being struck-by falling/collapsing scaffold components.

Issued

2014-01-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-01-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(4): Where uplift could occur which would displace scaffold end frames or panels, the frames or panels were not locked together vertically by pins or equivalent means:  This violation was observed on or about July 31, 2013, at a workplace located at 3301 N. 4th Street, Longview, Texas 75605; where the employer did not use pins or an equivalent means to lock the endframes of a two-tier scaffold together vertically, and exposed employees to the hazards of falling to the lower levels, and being struck-by falling/collapsing scaffold components.

Issued

2014-01-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-01-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1680.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(10): Except as otherwise provided in 29 CFR 1926.501(b), 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 or less in width, the use of a safety monitoring system alone:    This violation was observed on or about July 30, 2013, at a workplace located at 3301 N. 4th Street, Longview, Texas 75605; where at least two (2) employees, who were helping install flashing, were not protected from falling to the lower level.