OSHA Inspection: SHOWS CONSTRUCTION, INC.

Issued

Jul 14, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns, were not protected by protective helmet:  a)  On or about 06/18/2014 - 1007 13th Street, Tuscaloosa, AL, employees laying brick were not provided hard hats while working below stacks of brick on the second level of the scaffold system.

Issued

Jul 14, 2014

Abate by

Jul 24, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,100 · Current $2,100

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:  a) On or about 06/18/2014 - 1007 13th Street, Tuscaloosa, AL, employees handling Coosa Type N Portland cement were not using safety glasses.   b) On or about 06/18/2014 - 1007 13th Street, Tuscaloosa, AL, employees cutting brick with a trowel were not using safety glasses.   c) On or about 06/18/2014 - 1007 13th Street, Tuscaloosa, AL, employees operating a Stihl chop saw were not using eye and face protection.

Issued

Jul 14, 2014

Penalty

Initial $4,200 · Current $4,200

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) On or about 06/18/2014 - 1007 13th Street Tuscaloosa, AL, employees laying brick did not fully plank each level.

Issued

Jul 14, 2014

Penalty

Initial $4,900 · Current $4,900

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(9)(i): The employer did not provide safe means of access for each employee erecting or dismantling a scaffold:  a) On or about 06/18/2014 - 1007 13th Street, Tuscaloosa, AL, employees erecting and dismantling scaffolding were not provided a ladder to access the scaffolding system exposing them to falls of up to 30 feet.

Issued

Jul 14, 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, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Cross-braces were used as a means of access:   a) On or about 06/18/2014 - 1007 13th Street, Tuscaloosa, AL, employees laying brick were not provided a ladder to access the scaffolding system.

Issued

Jul 14, 2014

Abate by

Aug 7, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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):  a) On or about 06/18/2014 - 1007 13th Street, Tuscaloosa, AL, a written hazard communication program had not been developed and implemented for employees mixing and handling Coosa Buff Type N masonry cement.