OSHA Inspection: ILE CONSTRUCTION GROUP

Issued

Sep 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.300(b)(1): When power operated tools are designed to accommodate guards, they shall be equipped with such guards when in use.   Location: 315 12th Street Brooklyn, NY  On or About: 03/28/14   a) An employees used a RYOBI 4-1/2 inch angle grinder that was not provided with a guard.

Issued

Sep 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): Eye and face protective equipment were not used when machines or operations presented potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents.   Location: 315 12th Street Brooklyn, NY  On or About: 03/28/14   a) An employee the employee did not use eye/face protection while working with a RYOBI 4-1/2 inch grinder that was not provided with a blade guard.

Issued

Sep 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.404(b)(1): The Employer did not use either ground fault circuit interrupters as specified in paragraph (b)(1)(ii) of this section, or an assured equipment grounding conductor program as specified in paragraph (b)(1)(iii) of this section to protect employees on construction sites.    Location: 315 12th Street Brooklyn, NY  On or About: 03/28/14   a) The RYOBI 4-1/2 inch angle grinder was being used by the employees was not provided with a GFCI protection or an assured equipment grounding program.

Issued

Sep 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.760(a)(1): Each employee engaged in a steel erection activity who is on a walking/working surface with an unprotected side or edge more than 15 feet (4.6 m) above a lower level was not protected from fall hazards by guardrail systems, safety net systems, personal fall arrest systems, positioning device systems, or fall restraint systems.   Location: 315 12th Street Brooklyn, NY  On or About: 03/28/14  a) Three employees were working on a new floor Q-deck without fall protection while exposed to a potential fall hazard up to 30 feet to the ground below.

Issued

Sep 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.761(b): The employer did not train each employee exposed to a fall hazard in accordance with the requirements of 29 CFR 1926.761.   Location: 315 12th Street Brooklyn, NY  On or About: 03/28/14  a) Employees were not trained to recognize fall hazards. Three employees were working by the edge of a new floor Q-deck without any fall protection while exposed to potential fall hazards of approximately 30 feet to ground below.

Issued

Sep 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): Employers shall develop, implement, and maintain at each workplace, a written hazard communication program which at least describes how the criteria specified in paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) of this section for labels and other forms of warning, material safety data sheets, and employee information and training will be met, and which also includes the following:   Location: 315 12th Street Brooklyn, NY  On or About: 03/28/14  a) The employer did not implement and develop a written Hazard Communication Program for each employee exposed/using chemicals such as gasoline and Portland cement.

Issued

Sep 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(1): Employers shall have a material safety data sheet in the workplace for each hazardous chemical which they use.    Location: 315 12th Street Brooklyn, NY  On or About: 03/28/14  a) Employer did not maintain the required MSDS information sheets to his employees for on site reference of the chemicals on site, including gasoline and Portland cement.

Issued

Sep 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1): Employers shall provide employees with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment, and whenever a new physical or health hazard the employees have not previously been trained about is introduced into their work area. Information and training may be designed to cover categories of hazards (e.g., flammability, carcinogenicity) or specific chemicals. Chemical-specific information must always be available through labels and material safety data sheets.     Location: 315 12th Street Brooklyn, NY  On or About: 03/28/14  a)The employer did not instruct and inform employees of the hazards for each employee exposed/using chemicals such as gasoline and portland cement.