OSHA Inspection: SEFERINO FLORES

Issued

2014-01-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-01-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $100.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees working in areas where there is a possible danger of head injury from impact, or from falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns, were not protected by protective helmets:     This violation was most recently observed on or about December 18, 2013, at the job site located at 3032 Broadway, Garland, Texas 75041; where employees were exposed to struck-by hazards while working in areas where overhead hazards were present without the use of head protection.

Issued

2014-01-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-01-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $100.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): Employees were not provided with eye and face protection equipment when machines or operations present potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents:     This violation was most recently observed on or about December 18, 2013, at the job site located at 3032 Broadway, Garland, Texas 75041; where employees were exposed to struck-by hazards while operating a circular saw without the use of eye protection.

Issued

2014-01-09 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $100.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.304(d): All portable, power-driven circular saws shall be equipped with guards above and below the base plate or shoe. When the tool is withdrawn from the work, the lower guard shall automatically and instantly return to the covering position:     This violation was most recently observed on December 18, 2013, at the job site located at 3032 Broadway, Garland, Texas 75041; where employees were exposed to struck-by hazards while using a Makita circular saw with the lower guard in the opened position.

Issued

2014-01-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-01-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $100.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(1):  Each employee on a walking/working surface (horizontal and vertical surface) with an unprotected side or edge which is 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above a lower level was not protected from falling by the use of guardrail systems, safety net systems, or personal fall arrest systems:     This violation was most recently observed on or about December 18, 2013 at the job site located at 3032 Broadway; where an employee was exposed to fall hazards more than 6-feet above the ground level below.

Issued

2014-01-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-01-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $80.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(a)(5): The rungs of individual-rung/step ladders were not shaped such that employees' feet cannot slide off the end of the rungs:    This violation was most recently observed on or about December 18, 2013, at the job site located at 3032 Broadway, Garland, Texas; where employees were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 12-feet above the ground level below while using a job made ladder with open sided rungs.

Issued

2014-01-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-01-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1): When portable ladders are used for access to an upper landing surface, the ladder side rails did not extend at least 3 feet (.9 m) above the upper landing surface to which the ladder is used to gain access; or, when such an extension is not possible because of the ladder's length, then the ladder was not secured at its top to a rigid support that will not deflect, and a grasping device, such as a grabrail, was not provided to assist employees in mounting and dismounting the ladder:   This violation was most recently observed on or about December 18, 2013, at the job site located at 3032 Broadway, Garland, Texas; where employees were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 12-feet above the ground level below while using a job made ladder that did not extend at least three feet above the landing.