OSHA Inspection: VALENCIA CONSTRUCTION

Issued

Jan 21, 2015

Abate by

Jan 27, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,200 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolding was not fully planked or decked:     Location - 136 Board Street Meriden, CT 06450     The scaffold platform atop the five foot wide, fourteen foot long and eighteen foot high tubular welded scaffolding used by employees to access the roof and performing roofing work was not fully planked or decked.

Issued

Jan 21, 2015

Abate by

Jan 28, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,200 Reduced

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:     Location - 136 Board Street, Meriden, CT  06450     The scaffold platform atop the five foot wide, fourteen foot long and eighteen foot high tubular welded scaffolding was not provided with a safe point of access.

Issued

Jan 21, 2015

Abate by

Jan 28, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,200 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(6): The clearance between scaffolds and power lines were less than 10 feet.     Location - 136 Board Street  Meriden, CT 06450     The five foot wide, fourteen foot long and eighteen foot high tubular welded scaffolding was erected within 10 feet of the unprotected/insulated electrical power lines/wires.

Issued

Jan 21, 2015

Abate by

Jan 28, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,200 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(7): Scaffolds were not erected, moved, dismantled, or altered, by trained and experienced employees selected by, and under the supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection, moving, dismantling or alteration.     Location - 136 Board Street  Meriden, CT  06450     The five foot wide, fourteen foot long and eighteen foot high tubular welded scaffolding used by employees to access the roof and perform roof work was not erected, moved, dismantled, or altered, under the supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection, moving, dismantling or alteration.

Issued

Jan 21, 2015

Abate by

Jan 28, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,200 Reduced

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:     Location - 136 Board Street  Meriden, CT  06450     The scaffold platform atop the five foot wide, fourteen foot long and eighteen foot high tubular welded scaffold was not equipped with a fall protection system.

Issued

Jan 21, 2015

Abate by

Jan 28, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $800 Reduced

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.     Location - 136 Board Street  Meriden, CT  06450     Each employee working on the five foot wide, fourteen foot long and eighteen foot high tubular welded scaffolding were not trained by a person qualified in the subject matter to recognized the hazards associated with the type of scaffold being used and to understand the procedures to control hazards such as but not limited to fall protection and electrical hazards.

Issued

Jan 21, 2015

Abate by

Jan 28, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(b): The employer did not have each employee 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 in question.   Location - 136 Board Street  Meriden, CT  06450   Each employee erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, maintaining, or inspecting the five foot wide, fourteen foot long and eighteen foot high tubular welded scaffolding was not provided with training by a competent to recognize any hazards associated with erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, maintaining, or inspecting the tubular welded scaffolding.

Issued

Jan 21, 2015

Abate by

Jan 28, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,200 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13): Each employee(s) engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels were not protected by guardrail systems, safety net system, or personal fall arrest system, nor were employee(s) provided with an alternative fall protection measure under another provision of paragraph.       Location - 136 Board Street Meriden, CT  06450     The pitched residential roof with a 20 foot eave to ground fall distance was not equipped with a guardrail systems, safety net system, personal fall arrest system, or an alternative fall protection measure/plan.

Issued

Jan 21, 2015

Abate by

Jan 28, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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 hazards.   Location - 136 Board Street Meriden, CT  06450   Each employee working on the pitched residential roof with a 20 foot eave to ground fall distance was not provided with training to enable each employee to recognize the hazards of falling and the procedures to be followed in order to minimize and/or eliminate those hazards.