OSHA Inspection: JOSE L. CONSTRUCTION, INC.

Issued

Aug 5, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $960 Reduced

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 work environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury:    On or about 5/20/2014, E. 166th Street    a) The employees were not provided safety and health training as required by the standard.

Issued

Aug 5, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $720 Reduced

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29 CFR 1926.25(a): During the course of construction, alteration, or repairs, debris was not kept cleared from work areas, passageways, and stairs, in and around buildings or other structures:    On or about 5/20/2014, Clay Ave and North West Stairs    a)   The employees used the entrance and the stairs to gain access to the building. They had broken pieces of cinderblocks and wood, causing a tripping hazard.

Issued

Aug 5, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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29 CFR 1926.34(c): Means of egress was not continually maintained free of all obstructions or impediments to full instant use in the case of fire or other emergency:  On or about 5/20/2014, Clay Ave.  a) The employees used the entrance to gain access to the building. The entrance was obstructed with a scaffold and pallets of cinderblocks.

Issued

Aug 5, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $960 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1): When scaffold platforms are 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 another scaffold, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface were not used. Crossbraces shall not be used as a means of access:    On or about 5/20/2014, Clay Ave.    a) The employee climbed on the scaffold frame for access to/from the tubular welded frame scaffold.

Issued

Aug 5, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,200 Reduced

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29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above a lower level was not protected from falling to that lower level:    On or about 5/20/2014, Clay Ave.    a) The employee worked from the tubular welded frame scaffold. the scaffold was not provided with standard guardrails.

Issued

Aug 5, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,680 Reduced

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29 CFR 1926.501(b)(14): Each employee working on, at, above, or near wall openings (including those with chutes attached) where the outside bottom edge of the wall opening is 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels and the inside bottom edge of the wall opening is less than 39 inches (1.0 m) above the walking/working surface, was not protected from falling by the use of a guardrail system, a safety net system, or a personal fall arrest system:    On or about 5/20/2014, North and East Walls    a) The employees worked next to two unguarded wall openings.  They were exposed to a 15' fall hazard.

Issued

Aug 5, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $960 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.701(b): Reinforcing steel. All protruding reinforcing steel, onto and into which employees could fall, was not guarded to eliminate the hazard of impalement:    On or about 2/20/2014, South Wall    a) The employees worked at the edge and the rebar was not capped to prevent impalement.

Issued

Aug 5, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $960 Reduced

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29 CFR 1926.1052(b)(1): Except during stairway construction, foot traffic is prohibited on stairways with pan stairs where the treads and/or landings were to be filled in with concrete or other material at a later date, unless the stairs were temporarily fitted with wood or other solid material at least to the top edge of each pan:    On or about 5/20/2014, North Stairs, Basement to 2nd floor    a) The employees used the stairs and landings to gain access to the upper floors. They were not temporarily fitted with solid materials exposing the employees to a tripping hazard.

Issued

Aug 5, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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29 CFR 1926.1052(c)(1)(ii):Stairways having four or more risers or rising more than 30 inches (76cm) whichever is less, did not have one stair rail system along each unprotected side or edge:  On or about 5/20/2014, North Stairs, 1st and 2nd floor  The employees used the stairs to gain access to the upper floors. The stairs measured 45" wide, 11" long, 8" riser height and did not have a stair rail system along the descending, open side.

Issued

Aug 5, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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29 CFR 1910.1200(a)(1): The purpose of this section is to ensure that the hazards of all chemicals produced or imported are evaluated, and that information concerning their hazards is transmitted to employers and employees. This transmittal of information is to be accomplished by means of comprehensive hazard communication programs, which are to include container labeling and other forms of warning, material safety data sheets and employee training:  On or about 5/20/2014, E. 166th Street  a) The employer did not have a hazard communication program for the Portland and type S masonry cement.