OSHA Inspection: COBRA RESTORATION LLC

Issued

Nov 20, 2013

Abate by

Feb 4, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $600 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(2)(i): An employer may provide respirators at the request of employees or permit employees to use their own respirators, if the employer determines that such respirator use will not in itself create a hazard. If the employer determines that any voluntary respirator use is permissible, the employer shall provide the respirator users with the information contained in Appendix D to this section ("Information for Employees Using Respirators When Not Required Under the Standard");     LOCATION: Wood Rd. Braintree MA:             The employer did not provide the basic advisory information on respirators as presented in Appendix D of this section for employees who wore N-95 dust masks for protection against respirable dust and silica during cutting and grinding of mortar joints.

Issued

Nov 20, 2013

Abate by

May 1, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,400 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(d)(1)(iii): The employer did not identify and evaluate the respiratory hazard(s) in the workplace; including a reasonable estimate of employee exposures to respiratory hazards and identification of the contaminant's chemical state and physical form:    LOCATION:Wood Rd, Braintree MA:        The employer did not evaluate employee exposures to dust while they were cutting and grinding mortar joints, prior to providing them with filtering facepiece dust masks.

Issued

Nov 20, 2013

Abate by

Mar 3, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $600 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.21(b)(2): The employer did not instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his/her environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury:    LOCATION: CO. WIDE:        Employees were not trained in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and the applicable regulations, including but not limited to, fall protection, scaffold access, respiratory protection and chemical hazards.

Issued

Nov 20, 2013

Abate by

Jan 13, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1): When scaffold platforms are 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 another scaffold, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface shall be used. Crossbraces shall not be used as a means of access.     LOCATION: 340 Wood Rd. Braintree MA:     Employees were accessing the scaffold platform with improper use of ladders.

Issued

Nov 20, 2013

Abate by

Jan 13, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $800 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.453(b)(2)(v): A body belt with lanyard attached to the boom or basket was not worn by employee(s) working from an aerial lift:     LOCATION: Wood Rd, Braintree MA     Employees were exposed to falls of up to 20 feet while working from the basket of an extensible boom aerial lift, and not wearing personal fall arrest systems, or restraint device.