OSHA Inspection: GREAT CONSTRUCTION PARTNERS CORP

Issued

Aug 12, 2014

Abate by

Aug 22, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $1,000 Reduced

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):    Location:  21 Woodside Ave, Greenwich, CT 06831      Employees working on a job made wooden scaffold was not fully planked.

Issued

Aug 12, 2014

Abate by

Aug 22, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $1,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2)(i): Footings were not level, sound, rigid, and capable of supporting the loaded scaffold without settling or displacement:    Location:   21 Woodside Ave, Greenwich, CT 06831      The job made wooden scaffold was supported by poles that were not secured or stable to prevent them from being displaced.

Issued

Aug 12, 2014

Abate by

Aug 20, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,320 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(15): Ladders were used on scaffolds to increase the working level height of employees: without satisfying the criteria of subparagraphs (i) - (iv) of this paragraph:    Location:   21 Woodside Ave, Greenwich, CT 06831      A fiberglass step ladder had been placed on the wooden job made scaffold in order to increase the working height for employees.

Issued

Aug 12, 2014

Abate by

Aug 22, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $1,000 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.    Location:   21 Woodside Ave, Greenwich, CT 06831      The wooden job made scaffold had not been erected under the supervision of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection, moving, dismantling or alteration.

Issued

Aug 12, 2014

Abate by

Sep 8, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $1,060 Reduced

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.    Location:   21 Woodside Ave, Greenwich, CT 06831      The employer did not ensure that all employees had been adequately trained in the hazards associated with the scaffolding that they were required to work from and the proper ways and procedures to take in order to minimize these hazards.

Issued

Aug 12, 2014

Abate by

Aug 20, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,800 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13): Each employee(s) engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels were not protected by guardrail systems, safety net system, or personal fall arrest system, nor were employee(s) provided with an alternative fall protection measure under another provision of paragraph 1926.501 (b):     Location:   21 Woodside Ave, Greenwich, CT 06831      A) Employees who were accessing the second floor were exposed to fall hazards on the stairwell which was not equipped with an adequate guardrail system.      B) Employees were exposed to fall hazards while walking along the first and second floors due to wall openings which not equipped with an adequate guardrail system.    C) Employees working on the roof with a 23 foot 3 inch fall distance was not equipped with a fall protection system.

Issued

Aug 12, 2014

Abate by

Sep 8, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.503(a)(1): The employer did not provide a training program for each employee potentially exposed to fall hazards to enable each employee to recognize the hazards of falling and the procedures to be followed in order to minimize these hazards:  Location:  21 Woodside Ave, Greenwich, CT 06831    The employer did not provide training to employees in the hazards associated with falling and the proper ways and procedures to take in order to minimize these hazards.

Issued

Aug 12, 2014

Abate by

Aug 22, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,320 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.701(b): All protruding reinforcing steel, onto and/or into which employees could fall or come against, was not guarded to eliminate the hazard of impalement:    Location:  21 Woodside Ave, Greenwich, CT 06831    Employees were exposed to impalement hazards from exposed metal rods on the front porch which were not covered or otherwise protected.