OSHA Inspection: PARR CONTRACTING, INC.

Issued

2014-10-07 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-10-16 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1680.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.416(a)(3):   The employer did not ascertain whether any part of an energized electric power circuit was so located that the performance of the work may bring any person or equipment, into physical or electrical contact.  Nor did the employer post and maintain proper warning signs and advise employee(s) of the power circuit as required:    (a) On or about 09/17/14 - Byrd Springs Substation, 7610 Memorial Parkway SW, Huntsville, Alabama, employees were exposed to overhead high voltage electrical lines while pouring and finishing a concrete pad.  -

Issued

2014-10-07 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2400.00 · Current $1440.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.701(b): All protruding reinforcing steel, onto and/or into which employees could fall or come against, was not guarded to eliminate the hazard of impalement:    (a) On or about 09/17/14 - Byrd Springs Substation, 7610 Memorial Parkway SW, Huntsville, Alabama, employees were exposed to unprotected protruding steel rebar while finishing a concrete pad.

Issued

2014-10-07 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-10-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1680.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.702(h): Bull float handles, used where they might contact energized electrical conductors, were not constructed of nonconductive material or insulated with a nonconductive sheath whose electrical and mechanical characteristics provided the equivalent protection of a handle constructed of nonconductive materials:    (a) On or about 09/17/14 - Byrd Springs Substation, 7610 Memorial Parkway SW, Huntsville, Alabama, an employee finishing a concrete pad in a live transformer substation with an aluminum handle bull float brush contacted high voltage electrical lines.