OSHA Inspection: ERIC FITZGERALD

Issued

2013-12-26 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2800.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.416(e)(1): Worn or frayed electric cords or cables were used:     (a) Location: 29 Allen Road, Billerica MA, 01821     On or about 12/2/2013, employees were not protected from electric shock and burns from an electrical cord that was damaged and frayed.

Issued

2013-12-26 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2800.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames, and uprights did not bear on base plates and mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:     (a) Location: 29 Allen Road, Billerica MA, 01821     On or about 12/2/2013, the employer did not ensure that the scaffold was bearing on base plates or other adequate foundations.

Issued

2013-12-26 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2800.00

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, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access.     (a) Location: 29 Allen Road, Billerica MA, 01821     On or about 12/2/2013, proper access to scaffolds was not provided.

Issued

2013-12-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-02-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2800.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(7): Scaffolds were not erected, moved, dismantled, or altered, by trained and experienced employees under the supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection, moving, dismantling or alteration:; Such activities were not performed only by experienced and trained employees selected for such work by the competent person.     (a) Location: 29 Allen Road, Billerica MA, 01821     On or about 12/2/2013, Pump Jack scaffolding was not erected under the direction of a competent person.

Issued

2013-12-26 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2800.00

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:     (a) Location 29 Allen Road, Billerica MA, 01821     On or about 12/2/2013, employees working from a scaffold greater than ten feet above a lower level were not protected from falling.

Issued

2013-12-26 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2800.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(j)(2): Poles were not secured to the structure by rigid triangular bracing or equivalent at the bottom, top, and other points as necessary.     (a) Location: 29 Allen Road, Billerica MA, 01821     On or about 12/2/2013, pump jack scaffold poles were not secured at the bottom.

Issued

2013-12-26 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2800.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1): Where a portable ladder was used for access to an upper landing surface and the ladders length allows, the ladder side rails did not extend at least 3 feet (.9 m) above the upper landing surface being accessed:     (a) Location: 29 Allen Road, Billerica MA, 01821     On or about 12/2/2013, employees were not protected from falling while using a ladder that did not extend at least three feet above the upper landing surface.