OSHA Inspection: TIM MACK

Issued

2014-01-07 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-01-30 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $2000.00

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.  Location: 711 East Street, Middletown, CT.  The employer did not ensure that his employees were wearing safety glasses/goggles to protect them from the struck by hazard from nails being tacked into the roof from an air-powered nail gun.

Issued

2014-01-07 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-01-30 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $2000.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13): Each employee engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet (1.8 m)  or more above lower levels was not protected by guardrail systems, safety net systems, personal fall arrest systems, or an alternative fall protection measure under another provision of paragraph 1926.501 (b), nor did the employer demonstrate that it is infeasible or creates a greater hazard to use these systems and develop and implement a fall protection plan which meets the requirements of paragraph (k) of section 1926.502.  Location: 711 East Street, Middletown, CT.  The employer did not ensure that employees who were working on a 6 in 12 pitch roof and at least eight feet above a lower level were protected from falling by a guardrail system, safety net system, personal fall arrest system or an alternative fall protection measure nor did the employer demonstate that providing one of these above mentioned systems created a greater hazard and implemented a fall protection plan.

Issued

2014-01-07 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-01-30 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $1600.00

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.  Location: 711 East Street, Middletown, CT.  The employer did not develop a written fall protection program for employees to use and reference that explained fall hazards, the ability to recognize these hazards and the means to minimize them.