OSHA Inspection: TPG CONSTRUCTION AND MASONRY, LLC

Issued

Jan 15, 2014

Abate by

Jan 23, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

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) 341 Summerville Dr in Madison, MS - On or about August 30 to September 1, 2013, employees were exposed to struck-by hazards because they were not wearing hard hats while working below other employees that were laying and handling bricks and materials.

Issued

Jan 15, 2014

Abate by

Jan 23, 2014

Penalty

Initial $4,900 · Current $4,900

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 as specified in paragraphs 1926.451(b)(1)(i)-(ii)  (a) 341 Summerville Dr in Madison, MS - On or about August 30 to September 1, 2013, employees were working on scaffolding that was not fully decked or planked at levels 6 to 15 feet above the ground.

Issued

Jan 15, 2014

Abate by

Jan 23, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(2): Scaffold platforms and walkways were not at least 18 inches wide:  (a) 341 Summerville Dr in Madison, MS - On or about August 30 to September 1, 2013, an employee was using a single  2 X 10 scaffold board for a working platform.

Issued

Jan 15, 2014

Abate by

Jan 23, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(5)(i): The end of a platform 10 feet or less in length extended over its support more than 12 inches and the platform was not designed and installed so that the cantilevered portion of the platform is able to support employees and/or materials without tipping, or has guardrails which block employee access to the cantilevered end.   (a) 341 Summerville Dr in Madison, MS - On or about August 30 to September 1, 2013, an employee used the end of two scaffold planks to store bricks and a bucket of mortar that extended about 34 and 48 inches over the support.

Issued

Jan 15, 2014

Abate by

Jan 23, 2014

Penalty

Initial $3,500 · Current $3,500

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames,  or uprights did not bear on base plates, mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:  (a) 341 Summerville Dr in Madison, MS - On or about August 30 to September 1, 2013, the scaffold was missing base plates.

Issued

Jan 15, 2014

Abate by

Jan 23, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2)(ii): Unstable objects were used to support scaffolds or platform units:  (a) 341 Summerville Dr in Madison, MS - On or about August 30 to September 1, 2013, employees were exposed to fall hazards because scaffold planks were supported on one end by bricks laying on the roof and held by a 2 x 6 wood board fastened to the roof.  The scaffold posts on the outside of the scaffold away from the building was sitting on unstable blocks of wood.

Issued

Jan 15, 2014

Abate by

Jan 23, 2014

Penalty

Initial $4,900 · Current $4,900

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(14): Makeshift devices, such as but not limited to boxes and barrels, were used on top of scaffold platforms to increase the working level height of employees:  (a) 341 Summerville Dr in Madison, MS - On or about August 30 to September 1, 2013, an employee was using a makeshift device composed of 3 layers of bricks and a board for additional height to lay bricks above a window. A second makeshift device on the same platform was composed of a least 4 bricks and 3/4 inch thick board.

Issued

Jan 15, 2014

Abate by

Jan 23, 2014

Penalty

Initial $3,500 · Current $3,500

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(2): Employees working below a scaffold were not protected from falling tools, materials or equipment in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs (h)(2)(i)-(v) of this section:  (a) 341 Summerville Dr in Madison, MS - On or about August 30 to September 1, 2013, employees were exposed to struck-by hazards because the scaffold platforms did not have any toe boards or other means to prevent bricks and material from falling on employees.

Issued

Jan 15, 2014

Abate by

Jan 23, 2014

Penalty

Initial $4,900 · Current $4,900

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(2): Tubular welded frame scaffold(s) were not properly braced by crossbracing or diagonal braces, or both, to secure vertical members laterally and to align them so that the erected scaffold was plumb, square, and rigid:  (a) 341 Summerville Dr in Madison, MS - On or about August 30 to September 1, 2013, four employees were working on a scaffold that did not have any bracing on the side away from the building.

Issued

Jan 15, 2014

Abate by

Jan 23, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1052(c)(1): Stairways having four or more risers or rising more than 30 inches (76 cm), whichever is less, were not equipped with at least one handrail and one stair rail system along each unprotected side or edge:  (a) 341 Summerville Dr in Madison, MS - On or about August 30 to September 1, 2013, employees working on the top scaffold platform used the inside stairway that was missing a handrail and a stair rail system along the unprotected side.

Issued

Jan 15, 2014

Abate by

Jan 23, 2014

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $7,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1): A means of access for scaffold platforms more than 2 feet (0.6 m) above or below a point of access, such as 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 was not used.   (a) 341 Summerville Dr in Madison, MS - On or about August 30 to September 1, 2013, an employee were exposed to falls while using a "walk through frame" scaffold for accessing to and from the first level platform.   TPG CONSTRUCTION AND MASONRY, LLC WAS PREVIOUSLY CITED FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARD OR ITS EQUIVALENT STANDARD 1926.451(e)(1) WHICH WAS CONTAINED IN OSHA INSPECTION NUMBER 928624 CITATION NUMBER 1, ITEM NUMBER 2, ISSUED ON 09/18/2013, WITH A FINAL ORDER DATE OF 11/13/2013, WITH RESPECT TO A WORKPLACE LOCATED AT 310 SOUTH LAKE AVE IN RIDGELAND, MS.

Issued

Jan 15, 2014

Abate by

Jan 23, 2014

Penalty

Initial $9,800 · Current $9,800

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(vii): Each employee on a scaffold, not otherwise specified in paragraphs (g)(1)(i) through (g)(1)(vi) of this section, more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above lower level was not protected from falls by the use of personal fall arrest systems or guardrail systems meeting the requirements of paragraph (g)(4) of this section.  (a) 341 Summerville Dr in Madison, MS - On or about August 30 to September 1, 2013, two (2) employees were on a platform about 12 feet 8 inches above the ground and one (1) employee was on a platform 15 feet above the ground without any fall protection.  TPG CONSTRUCTION AND MASONRY, LLC WAS PREVIOUSLY CITED FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARD OR ITS EQUIVALENT STANDARD 1926.451(g)(1)(vii) WHICH WAS CONTAINED IN OSHA INSPECTION NUMBER 928624 CITATION NUMBER 1, ITEM NUMBER 3, ISSUED ON 09/18/2013, WITH A FINAL ORDER DATE OF 11/13/2013, WITH RESPECT TO A WORKPLACE LOCATED AT 310 SOUTH LAKE AVE IN RIDGELAND, MS.