OSHA Inspection: SCHIEBER CONSTRUCTION, INC.

Issued

Dec 26, 2013

Abate by

Jan 8, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,640 · Current $1,320 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels was not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports:      Employees were exposed to a fall hazard while working from a frame scaffold installing roofing material and accessing the roof and the frame scaffold was not fully planked between the uprights.

Issued

Dec 26, 2013

Abate by

Feb 8, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:      Employees working from a frame scaffold installing roofing material and accessing the roof and the platform was not fully planked and the employer had not provided training to the employees on the hazards associated with working off of the scaffolding and procedures to minimize those hazards.

Issued

Dec 26, 2013

Abate by

Jan 8, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,640 · Current $1,320 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(3): The front edge of all platforms shall not be more than 14 inches from the face of the work:      Employees were exposed to a fall hazard working from a frame scaffold installing roofing material and accessing the roof and the scaffold was set up to 24 inches away from the vertical surface of the building.

Issued

Dec 26, 2013

Abate by

Jan 8, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,640 · Current $1,320 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(4): Each end of a platform, not cleated or otherwise restrained by hooks or equivalent means, did not extend over the centerline of its support at least 6 inches (15 cm):     Employees were exposed to a fall hazard working from a frame scaffold installing roofing material and accessing the roof and the platform spanned between a carpenters bracket and a frame scaffold. The ends of the platform did not extend at least 6 inches over the centerline of its support.

Issued

Dec 26, 2013

Abate by

Feb 8, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(7): Scaffolds were not erected, moved, dismantled, or altered only under the supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection, moving, dismantling or alteration:      Employees were working from a frame scaffold installing roofing material and accessing the roof. The employees were exposed to a fall hazard because the scaffolding was not erected under the direction of someone acting in the capacity of a competent person before employees were allowed to access the scaffold.

Issued

Dec 26, 2013

Abate by

Jan 8, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,640 · Current $1,320 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 pre-fabricated scaffold access, or direct access from another structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface were not used:    Employees were exposed to a fall hazard while climbing the frame scaffold to install roofing material and accessing the roof. Acceptable means of access on and off the scaffold was not provided for the employees.

Issued

Dec 26, 2013

Abate by

Feb 8, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(b): The employer did not have each employee who is involved in erecting, disassembling, moving, operation, repairing, maintaining, or inspecting a scaffold trained by a competent person to recognize any hazards associated with the work in question:      Employees working from a frame installing roofing material and accessing the roof and the platform was not fully planked and the employer had not provided training to the employee on the nature of the scaffold hazards and the design criteria and the intended use of the scaffold.

Issued

Dec 26, 2013

Abate by

Feb 8, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

1926.503(b)(1): The employer did not verify compliance with paragraph (a) of this section by preparing a written certification record containing the name or other identity of the employee trained, the date(s) of the training, and the signature of the person who conducted the training or the signature of the employee:      The employer did not maintain evidence of the required training for each employee who might be exposed to fall hazards.  There was no written documentation that included the employees name, date of the training, and the signature of the person who conducted the training or the signature of the employee.