OSHA Inspection: GIZMO CONCRETE INC.

Issued

Sep 2, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $720 Reduced

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 06/18/2014, at the above addressed location, employees working from a scaffold did not have a ladder for access exposing them to a fall hazard.

Issued

Sep 2, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $960 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(14): Makeshift devices, such as but not limited to boxes and barrels, were used on top of scaffold platforms to increase the working level height of employees:  On or about 06/18/2014, at the above addressed location, an employee was standing on a concrete block that was placed on the scaffold planking exposing him to a fall hazard.

Issued

Sep 2, 2014

Penalty

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

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(vii): Each employee on a scaffold, not otherwise specified in paragraphs (g)(1)(i) through (g)(1)(vi) of this section, more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above lower level was not protected from falls by the use of personal fall arrest systems or guardrail systems meeting the requirements of paragraph (g)(4) of this section:  On or about 06/18/2014, at the above addressed location, employees working on a scaffold that was on the third level of a building did not have fall protection exposing them to a fall hazard.

Issued

Sep 2, 2014

Abate by

Sep 12, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,400 · Current $1,440 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(b): The employer did not have each employee who was 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:  On or about 06/18/2014, at the above addressed location, employees had not been trained by a competent person in the assembly of a scaffold.

Issued

Sep 2, 2014

Abate by

Sep 26, 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:  On or about 06/18/2014, at the above addressed location, the employer did not have a Hazard Communication Program for employees working with chemicals such as concrete and silica.