OSHA Inspection: SERAFIM PAINTING LLC

Issued

2015-01-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-01-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1200.00 · Current $840.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees 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:  JOBSITE:  The employee, painting exterior surface of a building underneath the ladder jack scaffold from which an employee was working was not wearing protective helmet.

Issued

2015-01-09 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1400.00 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, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  JOBSITE:  The platform of the ladder jack scaffold from which an employee was performing painting task was not equipped with any appropriate and safe means of access.

Issued

2015-01-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-02-05 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1400.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(7): Scaffolds were not erected, moved, dismantled, or altered, by trained and experienced employees under the supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection, moving, dismantling or alteration:; Such activities were not performed only by experienced and trained employees selected for such work by the competent person.  JOBSITE:  The ladder jack scaffold, from which n employee was performing painting task was not erected under the supervision and direction of a competent person.

Issued

2015-01-09 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1960.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(3): Personal fall arrest systems used on scaffolds were not attached by lanyard to a vertical lifeline, horizontal lifeline, or scaffold structural member.  JOBSITE:  The personal fall arrest device, which was won by an employee while performing painting task from the platform of the ladder jack scaffold at heights between 18 feet to 27 feet to the ground was not attached to any anchoring point.

Issued

2015-01-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-02-05 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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.  JOBSITE:  The employee who was working from the ladder jack scaffold was not trained to recognize the hazards associated with the type of scaffold being used.