OSHA Inspection: WILLIAM ELLIOTT & THEODORE PATRIKAS

Issued

2014-11-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2200.00 · Current $1500.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.404(f)(6): Grounding path. The path to ground from circuits, equipment, and enclosures shall be permanent and continuous.      Location: 16 Chestnut Street, Lynn, MA:  On or about 10/30/2014, an employee was exposed to electric shock and burns while using an electrical cord that was missing a ground pin.

Issued

2014-11-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2200.00 · Current $1500.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds shall be fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports.      Location: 16 Chestnut Street, Lynn, MA:  On or about 10/30/2014, employees were not protected from falling while working from a scaffold platform that was not fully planked.

Issued

2014-11-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(7): On scaffolds where platforms are overlapped to create a long platform, the overlap shall occur only over supports, and shall not be less than 12 inches (30 cm) unless the platforms are nailed together or otherwise restrained to prevent movement.   Location: 16 Chestnut Street, Lynn, MA: On or about 10/30/2014, the employer failed to ensure that scaffold platforms that were overlapped to create a longer platform only overlapped over support or bearer.

Issued

2014-11-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2)(i): Footings shall be level, sound, rigid, and capable of supporting the loaded scaffold without settling or displacement.   Location: 16 Chestnut Street, Lynn, MA: On or about 10/30/2014, the employer failed to ensure that a scaffold footing was sound, rigid and capable od supporting the loaded scaffold without settling or displacement.

Issued

2014-11-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1760.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(3): Scaffolds and scaffold components shall be inspected for visible defects by a competent person before each work shift, and after any occurrence which could affect a scaffold's structural integrity.      Location: 16 Chestnut Street, Lynn, MA:  On or about 10/30/2014, the employer failed to ensure that scaffold components were inspected for visible defects (cracks in planks) before each work shift.

Issued

2014-11-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(7): Scaffolds shall be erected, moved, dismantled, or altered only under the supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection, moving, dismantling or alteration. Such activities shall be performed only by experienced and trained employees selected for such work by the competent person.   Location: 16 Chestnut Street, Lynn, MA: On or about 10/30/2014, the employer failed to ensure that the scaffold system was erected and altered under the supervision of a competent person trained and experienced for such work.

Issued

2014-11-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2014-12-31 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2200.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(a)(1): The employer failed to have each employee who performs work while on a scaffold trained regarding the nature of any electrical hazards, fall hazards and falling object hazards in the work area.      Location: 16 Chestnut Street, Lynn, MA:  On or about 10/30/2014, the employer failed to ensure that each employee who performed work on a scaffold was trained regarding the hazards.

Issued

2014-11-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4400.00 · Current $2000.00 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: 16 Chestnut Street, Lynn, MA:  On or about 10/30/2014, the employer failed to ensure that proper access to scaffolds was provided.

Issued

2014-11-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4400.00 · Current $2000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet (3.1m) above a lower level was not protected from falling to that lower level by fall protection established in accordance with paragraphs (g)(1)(i) through (vii) of this section:    Location: 16 Chestnut Street, Lynn, MA:  On or about 10/30/2014, employees working from a scaffold greater than ten feet above a lower level were not protected from falling.