OSHA Inspection: DW MASONRY

Issued

2014-06-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1200.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees were not protected by protective helmets while working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or from falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns:    (a)  During masonry work, on or about 4/29/14:  Employees were not wearing hardhats for protection from overhead and struck-by hazards while working on a tubular welded frame scaffold system.

Issued

2014-06-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2000.00 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.    (a) During/prior to masonry work, east side of building, on or about 4/29/14:  Tubular welded-frame scaffold system was not erected under the supervision of a competent person and employees erecting scaffolding were not trained in scaffold erection.

Issued

2014-06-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds was not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports as specified in paragraphs 1926.451(b)(1)(i)-(ii)   (a) During/prior to masonry work, east side of building, on or about 4/29/14:  Work platforms on the third and fourth levels of the scaffold were not fully planked.

Issued

2014-06-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames,  or uprights did not bear on base plates, mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:   (a) During/prior to masonry work, east side of building, on or about 4/29/14:  Base plates for tubular welded frame scaffold system did not bear on mudsills.

Issued

2014-06-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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) During/prior to masonry work, east side of building, on or about 4/29/14:  Employees were climbing X braces and walk-through frames for access to or from scaffold work levels.  A ladder, ladder frame(s), or similar means of safe access was not used.

Issued

2014-06-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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) During/prior to masonry work, east side of building, on or about 4/29/14:  Employees were exposed to fall hazards of 10 to 20 feet while working from a tubular welded-frame scaffold system without use of a compliant guardrail system or equivalent.

Issued

2014-06-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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 toeboards, 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) During/prior to masonry work, east side of building, on or about 4/29/14:  Employees were exposed to hazard of being struck by falling objects while working from a tubular welded frame scaffold system that was not equipped with toe boards or equivalent.

Issued

2014-06-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(2): All brace connections were not secured.  (a) During/prior to masonry work, east side of building, on or about 4/29/14:  Several X brace connection(s) on the third level of the scaffold were not secured.

Issued

2014-06-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(a): The employer did not have each employee who performed work while on a scaffold trained by a person qualified in the subject matter to recognize the hazards associated with the type of scaffold being used and to understand the procedures to control or minimize those hazards.  (a) During/prior to masonry work, east side of building, on or about 4/29/14:  Employees performing work from a tubular welded-frame scaffold system were not trained to recognize the hazards associated with the scaffold system and the procedures to control or minimize those hazards.