OSHA Inspection: JUAN VACA

Issued

2014-08-08 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-09-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $0.00 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):    16205 Sedona Street, Omaha, NE (jobsite): The employer is failing to ensure that all working levels of scaffolds used by employees to install veneer block and stone are fully planked. Employees were observed working on multiple tube and coupler scaffolds that were not fully planked as required.

Issued

2014-08-08 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-09-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2400.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

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:  16205 Sedona Street, Omaha, NE: The employer failed to ensure that the posts of the scaffold were placed on baseplates with mudsills or other adequate firm foundation to prevent the scaffold from sinking into the ground or bending / damaging the posts.

Issued

2014-08-08 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-09-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2400.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(3): Scaffolds and scaffold components were not inspected for visible defects by a competent person before each work shift, and after any occurrence which could affect a scaffold's structural integrity:  16205 Sedona Street, Omaha, NE: The employer failed to ensure that scaffolds and the scaffold components were inspected prior to beginning work. The employer failed to have a competent person inspect the scaffolds used by employees to install veneer stone siding.

Issued

2014-08-08 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-09-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2400.00 · Current $0.00 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:  16205 Sedona Street, Omaha, NE: The employer failed to ensure that scaffolds were erected, moved, dismantled, or altered by only trained and experienced employees under the direction of a competent person.

Issued

2014-08-08 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-09-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(b): The employer did not have each employee involved in erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, maintaining, or inspecting a scaffold trained by a competent person to recognize any hazards associated with the work in question.  16205 Sedona Street, Omaha, NE: The employer failed to provide training to employees who were expected to erect scaffolds as part of the their duties. Untrained employees of Juan Baca and Simply Stone erected, moved, dismantled and altered 5 different scaffolds while at the jobsite in order to install stone veneer siding.

Issued

2014-08-08 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-09-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2400.00 · Current $0.00 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.  16205 Sedona Street, Omaha, NE: The employer failed to provide training to employees who were expected to work on scaffolds as part of the their duties. Untrained employees of Juan Baca and Simply Stone used 5 different scaffolds while at the jobsite in order to install stone veneer siding. Scaffolds were missing planking and /or mudsills and baseplates.