OSHA Inspection: TERRY'S CONSTRUCTION

Issued

Feb 26, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,100 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2)(iv): Front-end loaders and similar pieces of equipment were used to support scaffold platforms without being specifically designed by the manufacturer for such use:     Job site:  On or about September 25, 2013, and times prior to, employees constructing an industrial metal building were lifted to the building roof on a forklift supported platform.  The forklift had posted warnings against riders on it and its attachments.  This exposed the employees to the hazards of falling and being struck by an overturning forklift.

Issued

Feb 26, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,100 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.453(a)(2): Field modification of the aerial lift was not certified in writing by the manufacturer or by any other equivalent entity, such as a nationally recognized testing laboratory, to be in conformity with all applicable provisions of ANSI 92.2-1969 and this section and to be as safe as the equipment was before the modification:     Job site:  On or about September 25, 2013, and times prior to, employees used a modified extensible boom aerial lift to lift and place suspended bundles of metal roof panels on a building roof.  The employer had not obtained any certification for the modification.  This exposed the employees operating and riding in the lift to the hazards of an overturning or failing aerial lift and falling or being struck by the aerial lift.

Issued

Feb 26, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,600 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.502(d)(5): Non-locking type snaphooks were used as part of a personal fall arrest system:    Building roof area:  On or about September 25, 2013, employees installing a metal panel roof of an industrial metal building were provided with and used an inadequate fall arrest system.  Spring links were used as snaphooks did not have any locking means. This exposed the employees to the hazard of falling over 6 feet.

Issued

Feb 26, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.502(d)(9): Lanyards and/or vertical lifelines did not have a minimum breaking strength of 5,000 pounds (22.2 kN):  Building roof area:  On or about September 25, 2013, employees installing a metal panel roof of an industrial metal building were provided with and used an inadequate fall arrest system.  The hardware used in the assembly of the job made rope lanyards did not have 5000 pound minimum breaking strength.  This exposed the employees to the hazard of falling over 6 feet.

Issued

Feb 26, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.502(d)(16)(iii): Personal fall arrest systems, when stopping a fall, were not rigged such that an employee could not free fall more than 6 feet (1.8 m) nor contact any lower level:  Building roof area:  On or about September 25, 2013, employees installing a metal panel roof of an industrial metal building were provided with and used an inadequate fall arrest system.  The long rope lanyards would have allowed a falling employee to free fall more than 6 feet and in some circumstances contact the floor.  This exposed the employees to the hazard of falling over 6 feet.

Issued

Feb 26, 2014

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $4,200 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.760(a)(1): Each employee engaged in a steel erection activity who is on a walking/working surface with an unprotected side or edge more than 15 feet (4.6 m) above a lower level was not protected from fall hazards by guardrail systems, safety net systems, personal fall arrest systems, positioning device systems, or fall restraint systems:     Steel building roof:  On or about September 25, 2013, employees installing the metal panel roof of an industrial metal building did not utilize the provided personal fall protection system as they accessed the roof from a forklift supported platform.  This exposed the employees to the hazard of falling over 15 feet.