OSHA Inspection: ANCHOR MASONRY

Issued

Dec 3, 2014

Abate by

Dec 24, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.21(b)(2): The employer did not instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his work environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury:  At the job site, the employer did not instruct his exposed employees in recognizing the following hazards:  a/  Silica dust generated during tuckpointing work.  b/  That flexible, extension cords used to power portable hand grinders were not protected from damage.  c/  Flexible, extension cords used to power portable hand grinders were not designed for hard or extra hard usage.

Issued

Dec 3, 2014

Abate by

Dec 24, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(a)(1):  The employer did not have each employee who performs 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. The training did not include the nature of any electrical hazards, fall hazards and falling object hazards in the work area:  At the job site, exposed employees working from ladder jack scaffolds were not instructed to recognize the following hazards:  a/  The safe working distance from an overhead power line.  b/  Safe access to and egress from the working platform.  c/  When a personal fall arrest system was required.

Issued

Dec 3, 2014

Abate by

Dec 10, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.405(a)(2)(ii)(I): Flexible cords and cables were not be protected from damage. Sharp corners, pinch points, and projections were not avoided:  a/  At the job site, the orange and flexible cords supplying 120 volt electrical power to two Bosh Portable Hand Grinders, m/n AG40-85, unknown s/n, were pinched by the front door of the home where the tuckpointing work was been performed.  No protective device was in place to protect both flexible cords.

Issued

Dec 3, 2014

Abate by

Dec 10, 2014

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.405(a)(2)(ii)(J): Extension cord sets used with portable electric tools and appliances were not of three-wire type and not designed for hard or extra-hard usage:  a/  At the job site, both the orange and yellow flexible cords used to power Bosch Portable Hand Grinders, m/n AG40-85, unknown s/n, were not designed for hard or extra hard usage.  Both flexible cords were 14 guage when they should have been a minimum of ten gauge.

Issued

Dec 3, 2014

Abate by

Dec 4, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1):  When scaffold platforms were more than two (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 another scaffold, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface were not used:  a/  At the job site, unsafe access to and egress from a ladder jack scaffold were not provided.  The brackets supporting the work platform belonging to this scaffold were facing outwards from the exterior wall necessitating the exposed employee to climb over the one facing north.  The fall distance from the working platform to the ground below was approximately 11 feet.

Issued

Dec 3, 2014

Abate by

Dec 4, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(6):  Scaffolds were erected, used, dismantled, altered, or moved such that they or any conductive material handled on them might come closer to exposed and energized power lines:  a/  At the job site, the south end of a ladder jack scaffold was approximately one foot away from a live, overhead power line (OHPL) that was supplying 220/120 volt electrical power to the home.

Issued

Dec 3, 2014

Abate by

Dec 10, 2014

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(i):    Each employee on a boatswains' chair, catenary scaffold, float scaffold, needle beam scaffold, or ladder jack scaffold was not protected by a personal fall arrest system:  a/  At the job site, employee(s) working from a platform supported by a ladder jack scaffold was not provided with or using a personal fall arrest system.  The fall distance was approximately 11 feet.