OSHA Inspection: SPIVEY'S SERVICES

Issued

Jun 4, 2014

Abate by

Jun 30, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $1,200

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns, were not protected by protective helmets:   a)    On April 22, 2014, and times prior thereto, at the Southern Oaks Lane jobsite in St. Simons Island, GA, the employer failed to ensure that workers donned appropriate head protection while installing 2x4 trim using a step-ladder at the front of Building 3, exposing employees to struck-by hazards.     ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED.

Issued

Jun 4, 2014

Abate by

Jun 30, 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:   a)    On April 22, 2014, and times prior thereto, at the Southern Oaks Lane jobsite in St. Simons Island, GA, the employer failed to ensure that workers donned appropriate eye protection while installing 2x4 trim using a pneumatic nail gun in the front of Building 3, exposing employees to various eye hazards not limited to blindness.     ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED.

Issued

Jun 4, 2014

Abate by

Jun 30, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,400 · Current $2,400

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level:  a)    On April 21, 2014, and times prior thereto, at the Southern Oaks Lane jobsite in St. Simons Island, GA, the employer failed to ensure that employees on a ladder-jack scaffold at Building 2 were fall protected, exposing employees to falls of approximately 11 feet to a dirt surface.    ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED.

Issued

Jun 4, 2014

Abate by

Jun 30, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:   a)    On April 21, 2014, and times prior thereto, at the Southern Oaks Lane jobsite in St. Simons Island, GA, the employer failed to ensure that a ladder-jack scaffold at Building 2 was erected and dismantled under the supervision of a competent person, and that such activities were performed by trained and experienced employees, exposing employees to falls of approximately 11 feet to a dirt surface.    ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED.

Issued

Jun 4, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,040 · Current $2,040

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(13): The top or top step of a stepladder was used as a step:   a)    On April 21, 2014, and times prior thereto, at the Southern Oaks Lane jobsite in St. Simons Island, GA, the employer allowed employees accessing and egressing a flat roof at Building 7 to step on the top step of a 6-ft. stepladder, exposing employees to falls from 6 to 11 feet onto a concrete-foundation surface.    ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS NOT REQUIRED.

Issued

Jun 4, 2014

Abate by

Jun 30, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1060(a): The employer did not provide a training program for each employee using ladders and stairways, as necessary, which would enable each employee to recognize hazards related to ladders and stairways and train each employee in the procedures to be followed to minimize these hazards:  a)    On April 21, 2014, and times prior thereto, at the Southern Oaks Lane jobsite in St. Simons Island, GA, the employer failed to provide effective ladder and stairway training to include the recognition of hazards and the procedures to follow to mitigate such hazards, exposing employees to falls over six feet to next-lower surfaces.    ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED.