OSHA Inspection: ART OF BUILDING, LLC

Issued

Sep 30, 2014

Abate by

Nov 18, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,400 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.20(b)(2): The employer did not initiate and maintain programs which provided for frequent and regular inspections of the job site, materials and equipment to be made by a competent person(s):  Location: 97 Prospect Street, Cambridge, MA  On or about 7/17/14, the general contractor did not perform a frequent and regular inspection of the job site to prevent workers from fall hazards of up to 8-feet, 4-inches while working from the aluma-pole pump jack scaffold without base plates and tie back devices at the bottom of the poles to the scaffold.

Issued

Sep 30, 2014

Abate by

Nov 18, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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.  Location: 97 Prospect Street, Cambridge, MA  On or about 7/17/14, the general contractor did not ensure that the workers were trained to recognize hazards and avoid unsafe conditions associated with the aluma-pole pump-jack scaffold and did not ensure that the worker operating the JLG Skypower, model 460SJ articulating boom lift was trained.