OSHA Inspection: GONCALVES & ALVES MASONRY, INC.

Issued

Jun 2, 2014

Abate by

Jun 10, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,100 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames, and uprights did not bear on base plates and mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:    Location: 16 Webster Street, Bridgeport, CT 06607:     Employees performed construction activities while working from a pump jack scaffold whose poles did not bear on base plates and mud sills or other adequate firm foundation.

Issued

Jun 2, 2014

Abate by

Jun 10, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,100 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(j)(2): Poles were not secured to the structure by rigid triangular bracing or equivalent at the bottom, top, and other points as necessary.    Location: 16 Webster Street, Bridgeport, CT 06607:     Employees performed construction activities while working from a pump jack scaffold whose poles were not secured by rigid triangular bracing or equivalent at the bottom.

Issued

Jun 2, 2014

Abate by

Jun 10, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,100 Reduced

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.    Location: 16 Webster Street, Bridgeport, CT 06607:     The pump jack scaffold was not erected, moved, dismantled or altered under the direction and supervision of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection, moving, dismantling or alteration.

Issued

Jun 2, 2014

Abate by

Jun 10, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,600 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:    Location: 16 Webster St, Bridgeport, CT 06607:     The pump jack scaffold platform 23 feet above the ground on the pump jack scaffold was not equipped with fall protection.

Issued

Jun 2, 2014

Abate by

Jun 10, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,100 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(a)(1): The employer failed to have each employee who performs work while on a scaffold trained regarding the nature of any electrical hazards, fall hazards and falling object hazards in the work area:    Location: 16 Webster St, Bridgeport, CT 06607:     Employees exposed to fall hazards while performing work while on a pump jack scaffold were not trained in fall hazards and the procedures to be followed to minimize such hazards.

Issued

Jun 2, 2014

Abate by

Jun 10, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(b): The employer did not have each employee who was involved in erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, maintaining, or inspecting a scaffold trained by a competent person to recognize any hazards associated with the work in (a):  Location: 16 Webster St, Bridgeport, CT 06607:   Each employee involved in erecting, maintaining and inspecting the pump jack scaffold was not trained by a competent person to recognize any hazards associated with the work in question.