OSHA Inspection: BOULDER PETROLEUM LLC

Issued

Feb 20, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $640 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)  Excavation Area:  Workers were not wearing any head protection while inside of the unprotected excavation, on or about 1/27/2014.

Issued

Feb 20, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,120 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.651(k)(1): Daily inspections of excavations, the adjacent areas, and protective systems were not made by a competent person for evidence of a situation that could have resulted in possible cave-ins, indications of failure of protective systems, hazardous atmospheres, or other hazardous conditions:   (a)  Excavation Area:  A competent person was not on site to make inspections as needed throughout the shift, on or about 1/27/2014.   Abatement note:  To be "a competent person" under this standard, a person must have training in, and be knowledgeable about soils analysis, the use of protective systems and the requirements of this standard.  Competent person means one who is capable of identifying existing and predictable hazards in the surroundings, or working conditions which are unsanitary, hazardous, or dangerous to employees....

Issued

Feb 20, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,120 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.652(a)(1): Each employee in an excavation was not protected from cave-ins by an adequate protective system designed in accordance with 29 CFR 1926.652(c). The employer had not complied with the provisions of 29 CFR 1926.652(b)(1)(i) in that that the excavation was sloped at an angle steeper than one and one-half horizontal to one vertical (34 degrees measured from the horizontal):  (a)  Excavation:  Workers were working in an unprotected excavation more than five (5) feet deep, on or about 1/27/2014.

Issued

Feb 20, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $640 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)  Excavation Area:  The ladder provided in the excavation did not extend over ground level 3 feet.  It was approximately two feet below, on or about 1/27/2014.