OSHA Inspection: L & M MASONRY CONSTRUCTION, INC.

Issued

2014-09-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-10-23 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1200.00 · Current $600.00 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.  On or about August 7, 2014, at 5505 Copper Creek Pass, Cumming, Georgia:  Three employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to struck-by hazards and eye irritation when they chipped bricks with hammers and trowels and worked with COOSA Type N Masonry cement without wearing eye protection.

Issued

2014-09-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-10-23 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $1600.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.300(a): Hand tool(s), power tool(s) or similar equipment were not maintained in a safe condition:  On or about August 7, 2014, at 5505 Copper Creek Pass, Cumming, Georgia:  Three employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to electric shock hazard when they used a 15 amp Makita 5007N Circular Saw that had strain relief damage to the cord and at the collar where the power cord enters the motor housing.

Issued

2014-09-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-10-23 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.403(b)(2): Listed, labeled, or certified equipment was not installed and used in accordance with instructions included in the listing, labeling, or certification:  On or about August 7, 2014, at 5505 Copper Creek Pass, Cumming, Georgia:  Three employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to electric shock hazard when they used a 15 amp Makita 5007N Circular Saw plugged into a plastic duplex receptacle with a missing face plate not according to the listed and labeled instructions.

Issued

2014-09-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-10-23 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.404(f)(6): The path to ground from circuits, equipment, or enclosures was not permanent and continuous:  On or about August 7, 2014, at 5505 Copper Creek Pass, Cumming, Georgia:  Three employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to electric shock hazard when they used an adaptor that was missing the ground pin to power a 15 amp Makita 5007N Circular saw.

Issued

2014-09-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-10-23 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Platform(s) on all working levels of scaffolds, were not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and guardrail supports such that the space between adjacent units, and the space between the platform and the uprights:  On or about August 7, 2014, at 5505 Copper Creek Pass, Cumming, Georgia:  Three employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 18-feet when they worked from the work platform of a tubular welded frame scaffold that was not fully planked.

Issued

2014-09-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-10-23 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(a)(6): Scaffolds were not designed by a qualified person:  On or about August 7, 2014, at 5505 Copper Creek Pass, Cumming, Georgia:  Three employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 18-feet when they worked on a scaffold with several deficiencies that was not designed by a qualified person.

Issued

2014-09-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-10-23 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1000.00 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 August 7, 2014, at 5505 Copper Creek Pass, Cumming, Georgia:  Three employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 18-feet when they worked on a tubular welded frame scaffold that had 2 by 12's cut and used in a "t" formation to support the scaffold frame.

Issued

2014-09-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-10-23 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1000.00 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, sturcure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access.  On or about August 7, 2014, at 5505 Copper Creek Pass, Cumming, Georgia:  Three employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 18-feet when they climbed the scaffold frame because a ladder was not installed on the scaffold.

Issued

2014-09-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-10-23 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(4)(i): Guardrail systems shall be installed along all open sides and ends of platforms. Guardrail systems shall be installed before the scaffold is released for use by employees other than erection/dismantling crews.  On or about August 7, 2014, at 5505 Copper Creek Pass, Cumming, Georgia:  Three employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 18-feet when they worked from the work platform of a tubular welded frame scaffold that did not have guard rails and end rails installed.

Issued

2014-09-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-10-23 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $792.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(1): Each employee on a scaffold was not provided with additional protection from falling hand tools, debris, and other small objects through the installation of toeboards, screens, guardrail systems, or through the erection of debris nets, catch platforms, or canopy structures that contain or deflect the falling objects.  For falling objects too large, heavy or massive to be contained or deflected, the employer did not place and secure such potential falling objects away from the edge of the surface from which they could fall.  On or about August 7, 2014, at 5505 Copper Creek Pass, Cumming, Georgia:  An employee performing brick masonry work was exposed to struck-by hazards from falling bricks, buckets, and tools of the employees working above him while he worked beneath a tubular welded frame scaffold that did not have toe boards installed.