OSHA Inspection: JAMMAL ENGINEERING INC.

Issued

2014-04-25 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1680.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Platform(s) on all working levels of scaffolds, were not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and guardrail supports such that the space between adjacent units, and the space between the platform and the uprights is no more than 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide, and the employer could not demonstrate that a wider space was necessary.  (a) At the site employees were performing weatherization repairs while exposed to a fall hazard on a scaffold that was missing planks on the 12' and 18' level.

Issued

2014-04-25 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1680.00 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) At the site, employees performing weatherproofing on and around windows were exposed to a 12' fall hazard on a scaffold without mid-rails.

Issued

2014-04-25 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1680.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1): When scaffold platforms were more than 2 feet (0.6 m) above or below a point of access, portable ladders, hook-on ladders, attachable ladders, stair towers (scaffold stairways/towers), stairway-type ladders (such as ladder stands), ramps, walkways, integral prefabricated scaffold access, or direct access from other scaffold, sturcure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Crossbraces shall not be used as a means of access.   (a) At the site, employees were performing weatherproofing on and around windows were exposed to fall hazard on a scaffold at the 12' and 18' levels while using the cross braces as a means of access.

Issued

2014-04-25 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $960.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(1): Each employee on a scaffold was not provided with additional protection from falling hand tools, debris, and other small objects through the installation of toe boards, screens, guardrail systems, or through the erection of debris nets, catch platforms, or canopy structures that contain or deflect the falling objects.  For falling objects too large, heavy or massive to be contained or deflected, the employer did not place and secure such potential falling objects away from the edge of the surface from which they could fall.  (a) At the site, toe boards were not installed on the  12' and 18' high platforms exposing above employees walking and workers below to a struck by hazard.

Issued

2014-04-25 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-05-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1200.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(c): The employer had reason to believe that an employee lacked the skill or understanding needed for safe work involving the erection, use or dismantling of scaffolds, and the employer did not retrain such employee so that the requisite proficiency was regained:   (a) At the site, where a scaffold was used, employees were exposed to struck by and fall hazards, in that, scaffold lacked ladder access, toe boards, mid-rails and planking.