OSHA Inspection: GIUSEPPE FALCONE AND DANIELE FALCONE

Issued

Sep 12, 2014

Abate by

Sep 22, 2014

Penalty

Initial $5,000 · Current $2,333 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(2)(i): Respirator users were not provided with the information contained in Appendix D to 29 CFR 1910.134 when the employer determined that any voluntary respirator use was permissible:    Location:  Job sites and Shop    The employer provided and allowed the use of respirators without providing employees with the information in Appendix D of the respirator standard.

Issued

Sep 12, 2014

Abate by

Oct 10, 2014

Penalty

Initial $5,000 · Current $2,333 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(2)(ii): The employer did not establish and implement those elements of a written program necessary to ensure that any employee using a respirator voluntarily was medically able to use that respirator, and that the respirator was cleaned, stored, and maintained so that its use does not present a health hazard to the user:    Location:  Shop and job sites    The company did not establish and implement elements of a written respirator program that relate to the medical evaluation of respirator users, and the cleaning, storage, and maintenance of respirators.

Issued

Sep 12, 2014

Abate by

Oct 10, 2014

Penalty

Initial $5,000 · Current $2,334 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(d)(1)(iii): The employer did not identify and evaluate the respiratory hazard(s) in the workplace; including a reasonable estimate of employee exposures to respiratory hazards and identification of the contaminants chemical state and physical form:    The company has not evaluated the respiratory hazards of workplace chemicals such as paints, welding fumes, and concrete dust.

Issued

Sep 12, 2014

Abate by

Oct 10, 2014

Penalty

Initial $5,000 · Current $2,333 Reduced

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:    Job sites and Shop    The company did not have a written hazard communication program to inform and help protect employees from exposures to chemicals such as welding fumes, paints, primers, and crystalline silica.

Issued

Sep 12, 2014

Abate by

Oct 10, 2014

Penalty

Initial $5,000 · Current $2,333 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1): Employees were not provided effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment and whenever a new hazard that the employees had not been previously trained about was introduced into their work area:    Employees had not received hazard communication training, including the hazards of workplace chemicals and the methods to control those hazards.

Issued

Sep 12, 2014

Abate by

Dec 1, 2014

Penalty

Initial $5,000 · Current $2,334 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8): The employer did not maintain copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical in the workplace:    Location:  Shop and Job Sites    The employer is not maintaining copies of safety data sheets for potentials hazardous workplace chemicals such as paints, primers, welding sticks, metals and concrete dust.

Issued

Sep 12, 2014

Abate by

Sep 26, 2014

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $7,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.21(b)(2): The employer did not instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his/her environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury:  The company did not adequately train employees in workplace safety, including fire safety.

Issued

Sep 12, 2014

Abate by

Oct 10, 2014

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $7,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.24: The employer did not develop and/or maintain an effective fire protection and  prevention program at the job site throughout all phases of the construction, repair, alteration or  demolition work and/or did not ensure the availability of the fire protection and suppression equipment  required by Subpart F of this part:  Location: 296 Beacon Street, Boston  The employer did not maintain an effective fire protection and prevention program and, as a result, welding sparks ignited the adjacent building and caused a fire on or about March 26, 2014.

Issued

Sep 12, 2014

Abate by

Sep 22, 2014

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $7,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.352(a): Readily moveable objects to be welded on, cut or heated were not moved to a designated safe location away from fire hazards:  Location:  296 Beacon Street, rear of building.  A railing being installed at a stairway was not moved to a safe location for welding or cutting.  Sparks from the welding / cutting operation ignited wood clapboard on the adjacent building and caused a fire on or about March 26, 2014.

Issued

Sep 12, 2014

Abate by

Sep 22, 2014

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $7,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.352(e): Additional fire prevention precautions were not provided when welding, cutting, or heating operations were such that normal fire prevention precautions were not sufficient:  Location: 296 Beacon Street, Boston      The company did not take additional fire prevention precautions, such as the use of a fire watcher while using welding equipment to cut a railing during windy conditions on or about March 26, 2014.