OSHA Inspection: CARLOS OMAR GAMARRA CHUNG

Issued

2014-03-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1820.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns, were not protected by protective helmets:    a) 299 Barbara Street, Staten Island, NY 10306: Employee were allowed to work on the ground level below a scaffold with employees working overhead performing stucco operations without a protective helmet.     Condition observed on or about January 15, 2014.

Issued

2014-03-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1820.00 Reduced

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:     a) 299 Barbara Street, Staten Island, NY 10306:  Employees were allowed to perform stucco application operations from a fabricated frame scaffold approximately 12 feet from the ground below that was not fully planked from the front upright to the rear upright.      Condition observed on or about January 15, 2014.

Issued

2014-03-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1820.00 Reduced

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:    A) 299 Barbara Street, Staten Island, NY 10306: Employees were allowed to perform stucco application from a fabricated frame scaffold footed on base plates without mud sills on asphalt pavement.     Condition observed on or about January 15, 2014.

Issued

2014-03-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1820.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(3): Scaffolds and scaffold components were not inspected for visible defects by a competent person before each work shift, and after any occurrence which could affect a scaffold's structural integrity:    a) 299 Barbara Street, Staten Island, NY 10306: Employees were allowed to work from a fabricated frame scaffold, to perform stucco application operations, that had not been inspected by a competent person, in that, cross-bracing that provides structural integrity was not secured to the frame.     Condition occurred on or about January 15, 2014.

Issued

2014-03-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1820.00 Reduced

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:    a) 299 Barbara Street, Staten Island, NY 10306: Employees were allowed to perform stucco application operations  approximately 12 feet from the ground below on a fabricated frame scaffold without fall protection.    Condition occurred on January 15, 2014.

Issued

2014-03-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1820.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1): Portable ladders were used for access to an upper landing surface and the ladder side rails did not extend at least 3 feet (.9 m) above the upper landing surface to which the ladder was used to gain access:       a) 299 Barbara Street, Staten Island, NY 10306: Employees were allowed to use a ladder that was not secured and did not extend 3 feet above the working surface of the 2nd level of a fabricated frame scaffold to allow for safe access on and off the 2nd level.       Condition observed on or about January 15, 2014.