OSHA Inspection: AGUILARES MASONRY

Issued

Sep 18, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $960 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 August 27, 2014, an employee was exposed to a struck by hazard to the head while not wearing a protective helmet on ground level while handing up bricks to the upper level of the scaffold.

Issued

Sep 18, 2014

Abate by

Sep 24, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $960 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds was not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports as specified in paragraphs 1926.451(b)(1)(i)-(ii):   On or about August 27, 2014, an employee was exposed to falls approximately 6.5 feet in height to the paved ground level below from a scaffold, which had only 2 out of 3 possible planks installed while employee was handing bricks up to the next level.

Issued

Sep 18, 2014

Abate by

Sep 24, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $960 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(2): Scaffold platforms and walkways were not at least 18 inches wide:  On or about August 27, 2014, an employee was exposed to fall hazard approximately 9.5 feet in height to paved ground level below while handing up bricks and standing on a scaffold platform that was less than 18 inches wide.

Issued

Sep 18, 2014

Abate by

Sep 28, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $960 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 August 27, 2014, an employee was exposed to fall hazards of approximately 9.5 feet in height to paved ground level below when handing up brick while standing on a scaffold that had been erected with the upright support poles placed directly on the mud sills.

Issued

Sep 18, 2014

Abate by

Sep 24, 2014

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $960 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 August 27, 2014, employees were exposed to falls approximately 9.5 feet in height to the ground level below, when working from the 2nd level platform of the scaffold, which did not have a ladder for access and egress to and from the scaffold platforms, while handing bricks up to the next level.