OSHA Inspection: RAY SPENCER CARPENTRY & FRAMING, INC.

Issued

Feb 11, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,680 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13): Each employee(s) engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels were not protected by guardrail systems, safety net system, or personal fall arrest system, nor were employee(s) provided with an alternative fall protection measure under another provision of paragraph 1926.501 (b):     a. At the site, employees were exposed to a 8 foot 9 inch fall, in that no fall protection was used while conducting sheething operations on a roof with a 5/12 pitch. On or about 01/29/14.

Issued

Feb 11, 2014

Abate by

Mar 31, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $960 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.503(a)(1): The employer did not provide a training program for each employee potentially exposed to fall hazards to enable each employee to recognize the hazards of falling and the procedures to be followed in order to minimize these hazards:    a.. At the site, an employee working from a 8 foot 9 inch roof installing sheathing was not trained on the hazards associated with falls from heights. On or about 01/22/14.

Issued

Feb 11, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $960 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1): Where (a) portable ladder(s) was/were used for access to an upper level landing surface and the ladders length did not allow the ladder side rails to extend at least 3 feet (0.9 m) above the upper landing surface being accessed, the ladder was not secured at its top to a rigied support that will not deflect, and/or a grasping device was not provided to assist emmployees in mounting and dismounting the ladder.  a At the site, employees were exposed to a  8 foot 9 inch fall, in that,  the ladder being used to access the roof only extended 12 inches above the landing surface. On or about 01/29/2014