OSHA Inspection: LUIS ARMENDARIZ

Issued

Jun 13, 2014

Abate by

Aug 15, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $720 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): The employer did not develop, implement, and/or maintain at the workplace a written hazard communication program which describes how the criteria specified in 29 CFR 1910.1200(f), (g), and (h) will be met: (Construction Reference: 1926.59):  On or about June 5, 2014, at 4370 Barnsley Gardens Way, Cumming, Georgia:  Four employees performing brick masonry work using COOSA Masonry cement were exposed to eye and skin irritation when the employer did not develop and implement a written hazard communication program to inform the employees how to recognize and minimize chemical hazards.

Issued

Jun 13, 2014

Abate by

Aug 15, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(1): Employers did not have a safety data sheet in the workplace for each hazardous chemical which they use(Construction Reference 1926.59):   On or about June 5, 2014, at 4370 Barnsley Gardens Way, Cumming, Georgia:  Four employee performing brick masonry work using COOSA Masonry cement were exposed to eye and skin irritation when the employer did not have copies of the Safety Data Sheets on the jobsite to inform employees how to recognize and minimize chemical hazards.

Issued

Jun 13, 2014

Abate by

Jul 10, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $720 Reduced

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.  On or about June 5, 2014, at 4370 Barnsley Gardens Way, Cumming, Georgia:  Four employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to eye irritation and struck-by hazards from brick shards while using COOSA masonry cement and chipping bricks with trowels without using eye protection.

Issued

Jun 13, 2014

Abate by

Jul 10, 2014

Penalty

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

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(a)(6): Scaffolds were not constructed in accordance with the design by a qualified person:  On or about June 5, 2014, at 4370 Barnsley Gardens Way, Cumming, Georgia:  An employee performing brick masonry work was exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 13.2-feet when he worked from a work platform of a tubular welded frame scaffold that was supported by brackets that attached to scaffold frame and did not fully attach to the scaffold frame.

Issued

Jun 13, 2014

Abate by

Jun 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Platform(s) on all working levels of scaffolds, were not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and guardrail supports such that the space between adjacent units, and the space between the platform and the uprights is no:  On or about June 5, 2014, at 4370 Barnsley Gardens Way, Cumming, Georgia:  a) An employee performing brick masonry work from the second buck of a tubular welded frame scaffold was exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 13.2-feet when the work platform was not fully planked.   b) An employee performing brick masonry work from the third buck of a tubular welded frame scaffold was exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 20.4-feet when the work platform was not fully planked.

Issued

Jun 13, 2014

Abate by

Jun 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(7): On scaffolds where platforms are overlapped to create a long platform, the overlap did not occur only over supports:  On or about June 5, 2014, at 4370 Barnsley Gardens Way, Cumming, Georgia:  a) An employee performing brick masonry work from the second buck of a tubular welded frame scaffold was exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 13.2-feet when the planks of that work platform were not overlapped over the scaffold frame supports.   b) An employee performing brick masonry work from the third buck of a tubular welded frame scaffold was exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 20.4-feet when the planks of the work platform did not extend over the frame supports at least 12-inches.

Issued

Jun 13, 2014

Abate by

Jun 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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, sturcure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access.  On or about June 5, 20014, at 4370 Barnsley Gardens Way, Cumming, Georgia:  Two employees performing brick masonry work from a tubular welded frame scaffold were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 13.2-feet to approximately 20.4-feet when they climbed the scaffold frame because a ladder was not installed on the scaffold.

Issued

Jun 13, 2014

Abate by

Jun 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(4)(i): Guardrail systems were not installed along all open sides and ends of platforms.  On or about June 5, 2014, at 4370 Barnsley Gardens Way, Cumming, Georgia:  a) An employee performing brick masonry work from the second buck of  tubular welded frame scaffold was exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 13.2-feet when the work platform did not have guard rails and end rails installed.   b) An employee performing  brick masonry work from the third buck of a tubular welded frame scaffold was exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 20.4-feet when the work platform did not have guard rails and end rails installed.

Issued

Jun 13, 2014

Abate by

Aug 15, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(a)(1): The employer failed to have each employee who performs work while on a scaffold trained regarding the nature of any electrical hazards, fall hazards and falling object hazards in the work area.  On or about June 5, 2014, at 4370 Barnsley Gardens Way, Cumming, Georgia:  Four employees performing brick masonry work from a tubular welded frame scaffold were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 13.2-feet to 20.4-feet when the employer did not instruct the employees how to recognize and minimize fall hazards while working from scaffolds.

Issued

Jun 13, 2014

Abate by

Jun 19, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $720 Reduced

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.  On or about June 5, 2014, at 4370 Barnsley Gardens Way, Cumming, Georgia:  Two employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to struck-by hazards from falling bricks and tools of the employees working above them from the work platforms of a tubular welded frame scaffold that did not have toe boards installed.