OSHA Inspection: ELOY GALVAN

Issued

Dec 11, 2013

Abate by

Jan 15, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $1,200

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): The employer did not develop, implement, and/or maintain at the workplace a written hazard communication program which describes how the criteria specified in 29 CFR 1910.1200(f), (g), and (h) will be met: (Construction Reference: 1926.59)  On or about November 6, 2013, at 1523 Josh Valley Lane, Lawrenceville, Georgia:  Four employees performing brick masonry work using Argos Type N Masonry cement were exposed to chemicals which include but is not limited to chromates and Portland Cement when the employer did not develop a program to inform and instruct the employees how to recognize and minimize chemical hazards they work with.

Issued

Dec 11, 2013

Abate by

Jan 8, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(1): The employer did not have a material safety data sheet for each hazardous chemical which they used: (Construction Reference: 1926.59)  On or about November 6, 2013, at 1523 Josh Valley Lane, Lawrenceville, Georgia:  Four employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to eye, lung, and skin irritation while using Argos Type N masonry cement which contains chemicals which include but is not limited to chromates and Portland cement when the employer did not keep a material safety data sheet for the employees to recognize and minimize the hazards of working with the masonry cement.

Issued

Dec 11, 2013

Abate by

Jan 15, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1): Employees were not provided effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment and whenever a new hazard that the employees had not been previously trained about was introduced into their work area: (Construction Reference: 1926.59)  On or about November 6, 2013, at 1523 Josh Valley Lane, Lawrenceville, Georgia:  Four employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to eye, lung, and skin irritation while using masonry cement which contains chemicals which include but is not limited to chromates and Portland cement when the employer did not instruct the employees how to recognize and minimize those hazards.

Issued

Dec 11, 2013

Abate by

Jan 8, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $1,200

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:  On or about November 6, 2013, at 1523 Josh Valley Lane, Lawrenceville, Georgia:  Two employees performing brick masonry work from the ground were exposed to struck-by hazards of falling bricks, trowels, and masonry cement from the employees working on the porch roof above them when they did not use head protection.

Issued

Dec 11, 2013

Abate by

Jan 8, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $1,200

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): Eye and face protective equipment were not used when machines or operations presented potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents.  On or about November 6, 2013, at 1523 Josh Valley Lane, Lawrenceville, Georgia:  Four employees performing brick masonry work using Argos Type N Masonry cement were exposed to eye irritation when they did not use eye protection.

Issued

Dec 11, 2013

Abate by

Jan 8, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

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 November 6, 2013, at 1523 Josh Valley Lane, Lawrenceville, Georgia:  Two employees performing brick masonry work from a tubular welded frame scaffold were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 14-feet when they climbed the scaffold frame because the employer did not install a ladder.

Issued

Dec 11, 2013

Abate by

Jan 8, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Employees on scaffolds more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level by fall protection established in paragraphs (g)(1)(i)-(vii) of this section:  On or about November 6, 2013, at 1523 Josh Valley Lane, Lawrenceville, Georgia:  a) An employee performing brick masonry work from a tubular welded frame scaffold was exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 14-feet when the employer did not install end rails at the edge of the work platform.   b) An employee performing brick masonry work from a tubular welded frame scaffold was exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 14-feet when the employer did not install guard rails on the work platform.

Issued

Dec 11, 2013

Abate by

Jan 15, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(a): The employer did not have each employee who performed work while on a scaffold trained by a person qualified in the subject matter to recognize the hazards associated with the type of scaffold being used and to understand the procedures to control or minimize those hazards.  On or about November 6, 2013, at 1523 Josh Valley Lane, Lawrenceville, Georgia:  Four employees performing brick masonry work from a tubular welded frame scaffold were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 14-feet when the employer did not instruct the employees how to recognize and minimize scaffold hazards.

Issued

Dec 11, 2013

Abate by

Jan 15, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13): Each employee(s) engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels were not protected by guardrail systems, safety net system, or personal fall arrest system, nor were employee(s) provided with an alternative fall protection measure under another provision of paragraph 1926.501 (b):   On or about November 6, 2013, at 1523 Josh Valley Lane, Lawrenceville, Georgia:  Three employees performing masonry work from the porch roof of a house were exposed to a fall hazard that ranged from approximately 10.5-feet to 14-feet when they did not use fall protection.

Issued

Dec 11, 2013

Abate by

Jan 15, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.503(a)(1): The employer did not provide a training program for each employee potentially exposed to fall hazards to enable each employee to recognize the hazards of falling and the procedures to be followed in order to minimize these hazards:\  On or about November 6, 2013, at 1523 Josh Valley Lane, Lawrenceville, Georgia:  Three employees performing brick masonry work from the porch roof of a house were exposed to a fall hazard that ranged from approximately 10.5-feet to 14-feet when the employer did not instruct the employees how to recognize and minimiize fall hazards.