OSHA Inspection: SAUL VALERO MASONRY

Issued

2014-08-04 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-08-08 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $1040.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employee 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 helmets:    On or about July 11, 2014, an employee was exposed to a struck by hazard to the head while not wearing a protective helmet on ground level from falling rock material being installed overhead on an exterior wall.

Issued

2014-08-04 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-08-08 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $1040.00 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:    On or about July 11, 2014, an employee was exposed to fall hazards of approximately 10 feet in height to unpaved ground below while installing rocks on an exterior wall from a scaffold that did not have baseplates installed and scaffold support poles were placed directly on rocks.

Issued

2014-08-04 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-08-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $1040.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2)(ii): Unstable objects were used to support scaffolds or platform units:    On or about July 11, 2014, an employee was exposed to fall hazards of approximately 10 feet in height to unpaved ground below while installing rocks on an exterior wall from a scaffold that had rocks placed under the scaffold supports.

Issued

2014-08-04 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-08-08 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $1040.00 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, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Cross braces and side brackets were used as a means of access:       On or about July 11, 2014, employees were exposed to falls approximately 10 feet in height to the ground level below, when working from the work platform of the scaffold, which did not have a ladder for access and egress to and from the scaffold platforms, while installing rock material to an exterior wall.

Issued

2014-08-04 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-08-08 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $1040.00 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:; Such activities were not performed only by experienced and trained employees selected for such work by the competent person:      On or about July 11, 2014, employee was exposed to a fall hazards of greater than 10 feet in height to unpaved ground level below while installing rock material on an exterior wall from a scaffold that was assembled with unstable rocks under scaffold support poles and did not have a ladder in place for access.