OSHA Inspection: CHOMA CONSTRUCTION ENTERPRISES INC.

Issued

2014-01-21 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-02-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $1600.00

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):  On or about January 10, 2014, at the above addressed jobsite, an employee was working on a scaffold that was not fully planked.

Issued

2014-01-21 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-02-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $1600.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames,  or uprights did not bear on base plates, mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:  On or about January 10, 2014, at the above addressed jobsite, an employee was working on a scaffold in which the legs rested on a brick.

Issued

2014-01-21 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-02-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $1600.00

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, sturcure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access:  On or about January 10, 2014, at the above addressed jobsite, an employee was working on a scaffold which did not have safe access to reach the platform.

Issued

2014-01-21 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-02-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $1600.00

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:  On or about January 10, 2014, at the above addressed jobsite, the employer had erected a prefabricated frame scaffold without the supervision of a competent person.