OSHA Inspection: STEVE SAMPSON

Issued

May 14, 2014

Abate by

Jun 18, 2014

Penalty

Initial $400 · Current $400

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1903.19(d)(1): The employer did not submit to the Agency documents demonstrating that abatement is complete for each willful or repeat violation and for any serious violation for which the Agency indicates in the citation that such abatement documentation is required:   On March 3, 2014, Steve Sampson dba Design It Construction, was issued citations and the employer did not verify, through documents that each citation was abated.  Abatement documentation was not received for the following violations:       a.    Citation 1 Item 1 a, b & c, and b.    Citation 1 Item 2 a & b, and c.    Citation 1 Item 3 a & b, and d.    Citation 1 Item 4

Issued

Mar 3, 2014

Abate by

Mar 13, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.20(b)(1): The employer did not initiate and maintain accident prevention programs as necessary to comply with this part:    Employees were exposed to a fall and struck by hazards and the employer did not have an effective safety and health program with specific work rules, competent person oversight, and employee training to govern employees activities.

Issued

Mar 3, 2014

Abate by

Mar 13, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.21(b)(2): The employer did not instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his/her environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury:    Employees were exposed to a fall and struck by hazards and the employer had not instructed the employees in hazard recognition and the applicable regulations to their work environment.

Issued

Mar 3, 2014

Abate by

Mar 13, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees were not protected by protective helmets while working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or from falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns:    An employee was exposed to the hazard of being struck in the head by falling materials and tools, and was not required to wear a hard hat while working underneath employees performing framing activities on a scaffold.

Issued

Mar 3, 2014

Abate by

Mar 13, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds was not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports as specified in paragraphs 1926.451(b)(1)(i)-(ii)    Employees working on a tubular welded frame scaffold were exposed to a fall of approximately 11 feet, and the leveled that the employee worked from was not fully planked.

Issued

Mar 3, 2014

Abate by

Mar 13, 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 working on a tubular welded frame scaffold were exposed to a fall of approximately 11 feet.  The scaffold was not erected and moved under the direction of a competent person before employees were allowed to access the scaffold.

Issued

Mar 3, 2014

Abate by

Mar 13, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

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:     Employees working on a tubular welded frame scaffold were exposed to a fall of approximately 11 feet, and were not protected by a guardrail system.

Issued

Mar 3, 2014

Abate by

Mar 13, 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 on a tubular welded frame scaffold were exposed to a fall of approximately 11 feet, and were not trained to recognize or minimize the fall hazard associated with the scaffold.

Issued

Mar 3, 2014

Abate by

Mar 13, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(2): All brace connections were not secured:   Employees working on a tubular welded frame scaffold were exposed to a fall of approximately 11 feet, and the cross bracing was not secured together.