OSHA Inspection: JOSE MANUEL CANDELARIA

Issued

2013-09-10 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-09-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1400.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.450(b)(1):  Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds was not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports:  On or about 09/06/2013 at 3565 Braselton Highway Dacula, GA: employees performing EFIS work were observed working from a scaffold that wasn't fully decked exposing employees to a fall hazard of approximately 12' to the lower level.

Issued

2013-09-10 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-09-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1400.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2)(i): Footings were not level, sound, rigid, and capable of supporting the loaded scaffold without settling or displacement:  On or about 09/06/2013 at 3565 Braselton Highway Dacula, GA: employees performing brick work were observed working from a scaffold that had screw jacks resting on mudsills that were set upon concrete block, or partially coming off of the mudsills exposing employees to an approximate 6' fall hazard to the lower level.

Issued

2013-09-10 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-09-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1400.00 Reduced

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.  On or about 09/06/2013 at 3565 Braselton Highway Dacula, GA: employees performing EFIS work were observed working from a scaffold where the ladder provided for access and egress did not extend to the working level and an employee scaled the frame to access and egress the working level from the first level exposing him to a fall hazard of approximately 6' to the lower level.

Issued

2013-09-10 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-09-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1400.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(3): Scaffolds and scaffold components were not inspected for visible defects by a competent person before each work shift, and after any occurrence which could affect a scaffold's structural integrity:  A. On or about 09/06/2013 at 3565 Braselton Highway Dacula, GA: employees performing EFIS work were observed working from a scaffold that had visibly damaged planking exposing them to potential falls of approximately 10' to the lower level; and  B. On or about 09/06/2013 at 3565 Braselton Highway Dacula, GA: employees performing brick work were observed working from a scaffold that had a visibly bent frame exposing them to potential falls of approximately 6' to the lower level.

Issued

2013-09-10 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-09-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1400.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(4)(i): Guardrail systems were not installed along all open ends of platforms.  On or about 09/06/2013 at 3565 Braselton Highway Dacula, GA: employees performing EFIS work were observed working from a scaffold that did not have adequate endrails installed to prevent employees from falling approximately 12' to the lower level.

Issued

2013-09-10 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-09-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1400.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(1): Each employee on a scaffold was not provided with additional protection from falling hand tools, debris, and other small objects through the installation of toeboards, screens, guardrail systems, or through the erection of debris nets, catch platforms, or canopy structures that contain or deflect the falling objects.   On or about 09/06/2013 at 3565 Braselton Highway Dacula, GA: employees performing EFIS work were observed working from a scaffold that did not have toeboards throughout the working level, exposing employees on the ground to struck-by hazards.

Issued

2013-09-10 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-09-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1400.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(4): End frames of tubular welded frame scaffolding were not locked together vertically by use of pins or equivalent means in areas where uplift could occur:  On or about 09/06/2013 at 3565 Braselton Highway Dacula, GA: employees performing brick work were observed working from a scaffold that was missing the connecting pins exposing the employees to a fall hazard of approximately  6' to the lower level.