OSHA Inspection: JUAN PALOMARES

Issued

Sep 24, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,020 · Current $1,020

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.25(a): During the course of construction, alteration, or repairs,  debris and lumber with protruding nails was not kept cleared from work areas, passageways, and stairs, in and around buildings or other structures:  (a) Construction site - On or about July 23, 2014 debris and lumber with protruding nails were not removed from the work area.

Issued

Sep 24, 2014

Abate by

Oct 6, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,700 · Current $1,700

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1): Where scaffold platforms were more than 2 feet above or below a point of access, portable ladders, hook-on ladders, attachable ladders, stair towers, stairway-type ladders, ramps, walkways, integral prefabricated scaffold access, or direct access from another scaffold, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used for access:  (a) Construction site  - On or about July 23, 2014 employee(s) worked from scaffold without a safe means of access.  Employee climbed down on bracket and went through opening for window.

Issued

Sep 24, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,700 · Current $1,700

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Employees on scaffolds more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level by fall protection established in paragraphs (g)(1)(i)-(vii) of this section:  (a) Construction site  - On or about July 23, 2014 employee working from scaffold 16 feet above ground without fall protection.

Issued

Sep 24, 2014

Abate by

Oct 21, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,700 · Current $1,700

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(a): The employer did not have each employee who performs 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:  (a) Construction site  - On or about July 23, 2014 employee working from carpenters bracket scaffold 16 feet above ground were not trained as required.

Issued

Sep 24, 2014

Abate by

Oct 21, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:  (a) Construction site  - On or about July 23, 2014 employee(s) who erected carpenters bracket scaffold were not trained as required.

Issued

Sep 24, 2014

Abate by

Oct 21, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,020 · Current $1,020

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.503(a)(1): The employer did not provide a training program for each employee potentially exposed to fall hazards to enable each employee to recognize the hazards of falling and the procedures to be followed in order to minimize these hazard:  (a)Construction site - On or about July 23, 2014 employees were exposed to fall hazards and the employer had not developed a training program and trained employees as required.

Issued

Sep 24, 2014

Abate by

Oct 6, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,360 · Current $1,360

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1052(c)(1)(ii): Stairways having four or more risers or rising more than 30 inches (76 cm), whichever is less, were not equipped with a stairrail system along each unprotected side or edge:  (a) Construction site -  On or about July 23, 2014 employee used 2 stairways to 2nd floor that did not have stairrail systems in place.