OSHA Inspection: FC CARPENTRY, INC.

Issued

Sep 30, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,700 · Current $850 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees were not protected by protective helmets while working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or from falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns:    Location: 97 Prospect Street, Cambridge, MA    On or about 7/17/14, an employee on the ground was not wearing a hard hat and was exposed to overhead struck-by hazards while passing siding up to the operator in the JLG Skypower, model 460SJ articulating boom lift.

Issued

Sep 30, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,400 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.    Location: 97 Prospect Street, Cambridge, MA    On or about 7/17/14, an employee using pneumatic nail guns and trimming equipment was not wearing safety glasses and exposed to eye injury hazards.

Issued

Sep 30, 2014

Abate by

Nov 18, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,400 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:    Location: 97 Prospect Street, Cambridge, MA    On or about 7/17/14, an employee was exposed to fall hazards of up to 8-feet, 4-inches while working from the aluma-pole pump jack scaffold without base plates installed underneath each upright of the scaffold.

Issued

Sep 30, 2014

Abate by

Nov 18, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(j)(2): Poles were not secured to the structure by rigid triangular bracing or equivalent at the bottom, top, and other points as necessary.  Location: 97 Prospect Street, Cambridge, MA  On or about 7/17/14, an employee was exposed to fall hazards of up to 8-feet, 4-inches while working from an aluma-pole pump jack scaffold due to the poles not being secured to the structure with a tie back device at the bottom of the scaffold.

Issued

Sep 30, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,400 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.453(b)(2)(v): A body belt with lanyard attached to the boom or basket was not worn by employee(s) working from an aerial lift:    Location: 97 Prospect Street, Cambridge, MA    On or about 7/17/14, an employee was exposed to fall hazards of greater than 40-feet while working from a JLG Skypower, model 460SJ articulating boom lift without a fall protection system.

Issued

Sep 30, 2014

Abate by

Nov 18, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $0 Reduced

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 employer 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.