OSHA Inspection: AGUILAR MASONRY

Issued

Sep 17, 2014

Abate by

Sep 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

Hazardous substances 9010

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): The employer did not develop, implement, and/or maintain at the workplace a written hazard communication program which describes how the criteria specified in 29 CFR 1910.1200(f), (g), and (h) will be met: (Construction Reference: 1926.59)    a. On or about March 28, 2014, North Building, a written hazard communication program was not maintained at the school construction site where employees worked with hazards chemicals including but not limited to limestone (irritant), brick (crystalline silica hazard, irritant), and masonry cement (crystalline silica hazard, irritant).

Issued

Sep 17, 2014

Abate by

Sep 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

Hazardous substances 9010

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8): The employer did not ensure that material safety data sheets were readily accessible to the employees in their work area during each work shift: (Construction Reference: 1926.59)   a. On or about March 28, 2014, North Building, a safety data sheets were not maintained at the school construction site where employees worked with hazards chemicals including but not limited to limestone (irritant), brick (crystalline silica hazard, irritant), and masonry cement (crystalline silica hazard, irritant).

Issued

Sep 17, 2014

Abate by

Sep 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

Hazardous substances 9010

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(3)(ii): Employee training did not include the physical and health hazards of the chemicals in the work area:  (Construction Reference: 1926.59)    a. On or about March 28, 2014, North Building, the employer did not provide effective hazard communication training on the health effects of crystalline silica containing materials.  Employees worked with hazards chemicals including but not limited to brick (crystalline silica hazard, irritant), and masonry cement (crystalline silica hazard, irritant).

Issued

Sep 17, 2014

Abate by

Sep 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

Hazardous substances 8110

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.52(a): Protection against the effects of noise was not provided for employee(s) exposed to sound levels which exceeded those listed in Table D-2 of 29 CFR part 1926.52:    a. On or about April 11, 2014, North Building, an employee who operated a cut-off saw was exposed to workplace noise at an 8-hr TWA of 95.7 dBA, or equivalently a noise dose of 222%.  The noise monitoring result was derived from a personal sampling time of 249 minutes and a non-sampled time of 231 minutes, assumed to be a zero noise exposure period.

Issued

Sep 17, 2014

Abate by

Sep 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

Hazardous substances 8110

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.52(b): Employees were subjected to sound levels exceeding those listed in table D-2 of 29 CFR 1926.52 and feasible administrative or engineering controls were not utilized to reduce sound levels:    a. On or about April 11, 2014, North Building, feasible administrative controls were not established and implemented to reduce work place noise for cutting bricks such as an employee rotation schedule for brick cut-off saw operation.

Issued

Sep 17, 2014

Abate by

Sep 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

Hazardous substances 8110

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.52(d)(1): In all cases where the sound levels exceeded the values shown in Table D-2 of 29 CFR 1926.52, a continuing, effective hearing conservation program was not administered:  a. On or about April 11, 2014, North Building, a hearing conservation program which included hearing conservation training, noise monitoring, and baseline and annual hearing tests, was not established for an employee who operated a cut-off saw.

Issued

Sep 17, 2014

Abate by

Sep 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $1,200

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1)(i): Each platform unit (e.g., scaffold plank, fabricated plank, fabricated deck, or fabricated platform) was not installed so that the space between adjacent units and the space between the platform and the uprights were no more than 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide, except where the employer can demonstrate that a wider space is necessary.    a. On or about March 28, 2014, North School Building, the blue fabricated metal frame scaffold platform was not fully planked and employees worked from scaffold platform to lay stone which exposes them to fall hazards.

Issued

Sep 17, 2014

Abate by

Sep 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $1,200

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, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.     a. On or about March 28, 2014, North Building, a ladder or other adequate means of scaffold access was not provided where five employees worked from scaffolding to lay stone which exposes them to fall hazards.

Issued

Sep 17, 2014

Abate by

Sep 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $1,200

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(2)(ii): A toeboard was not erected along the edge of platforms more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above lower levels for a distance sufficient to protect employees below:   a. On or about March 28, 2014, North School Building, the blue fabricated metal frame scaffold platform lacked toeboards and employees walking below the scaffold platform were exposed to struck-by hazards.