OSHA Inspection: TGFNO, LLC

Issued

2014-11-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1020.00 · Current $1020.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.95(a): Protective equipment, including personal protective equipment for eyes, face, head, and extremities, protective clothing, respiratory devices, and protective shields and barriers, were not provided:  a.  Barrington Estates Subdivision, Lot #35A, 6348 Pierless Avenue, Sugar Hill, GA (Jobsite) -  Employees were exposed to struck-by hazard.  The employee was not utilizing eye protection when dry cutting hardi-plank siding, to prevent the flying hardi-plank siding from flying back into the employees face/eyes, on or about 10/28/14.           .

Issued

2014-11-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2800.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13): Each employee engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet (1.8 m)  or more above lower levels was not protected by guardrail systems, safety net systems, personal fall arrest systems, or an alternative fall protection measure under another provision of paragraph 1926.501 (b), nor did the employer demonstrate that it is infeasible or creates a greater hazard to use these systems and develop and implement a fall protection plan which meets the requirements of paragraph (k) of section 1926.502:    a. Barrington Estates Subdivision, Lot #35A, 6348 Pierless Avenue, Sugar Hill, GA (Jobsite) - Employees were exposed to fall hazard.  The employees were not utilizing the proper means of fall protection while working and walking approximately 12 feet and greater above ground level on the elevated porch roof, installing Cornish siding along the edge of the roof on the new constructed residential home, on or about 10/28/14.

Issued

2014-11-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1700.00 · Current $1700.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1): Where portable ladders were used for access to upper landing surfaces, the ladder side rails did not extend at least 3 feet (.9 m) above the upper landing surface to which the ladders were used to gain access:  a.  Barrington Estates Subdivision, Lot #35A, 6348 Pierless Avenue, Sugar Hill, GA (Jobsite) - Employees were exposed to fall hazard.  Employees were using portable extension ladders that did not extend 3 feet above the upper landing while accessing the ladder to get to the porch roof of the residential home, on or about 10/28/14.