OSHA Inspection: EVERARDO DIAZ

Issued

Feb 25, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $1,600

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:   a) 5th Street, NW, Exposure  On or about 11/07/2014, two mason tenders working at or around the base of a fabricated frame scaffold were exposed to a struck-by hazard from unrestrained loose brick and hand tool and were not provided with head protection.

Issued

Feb 25, 2015

Abate by

Mar 17, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(1)(ii): 29 CFR 1926.451(c)(1)(ii): Supported scaffolds with a height to base width ratio of more than four to one (4:1) were not restrained from tipping by installing guys, ties, and braces at each end of the scaffold and/or at horizontal intervals not to exceed 30 feet (9.1 m):    a)  5th Street, NW, Exposure  On or about 11/07/2014, masons laying brick from a two fabricated frame scaffold systems were exposed to a potential scaffold collapse for the scaffolds, which were both 24 feet tall and five feet wide, were not otherwise restrained of attached or secured to the face of the building by guying or some similar method of providing stability.     Abatement certification and documentation required within 10 days after abatement date. The certification shall include a statement that abatement is complete, the date and method of abatement, and state that employees and their representatives were informed of this abatement. Abatement documentation shall include documents demonstrating that abatement is complete, such as evidence of the purchase or repair of equipment, photographic or video evidence of abatement or other written records.

Issued

Feb 25, 2015

Abate by

Mar 17, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:   a)       5th Street, NW, Exposure  On or about 11/07/2014, safe ladder access was not provided to mason who had to access platforms that were part of a fabricated frame scaffold system which were located 13 feet above the ground.      Abatement certification and documentation required within 10 days after abatement date. The certification shall include a statement that abatement is complete, the date and method of abatement, and state that employees and their representatives were informed of this abatement. Abatement documentation shall include documents demonstrating that abatement is complete, such as evidence of the purchase or repair of equipment, photographic or video evidence of abatement or other written records.

Issued

Feb 25, 2015

Abate by

Mar 23, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:   a)       5th St., NW, Exposure  On or about 11/07/2014, the company supervisor whom was responsible for the safe erection of a fabricated frame scaffold had constructed the scaffold without standard guardrails, without a ladder, without falling object protection and without attaching the scaffold to an adjacent structure when necessary.  Abatement certification and documentation required within 10 days after abatement date. The certification shall include a statement that abatement is complete, the date and method of abatement, and state that employees and their representatives were informed of this abatement. Abatement documentation shall include documents demonstrating that abatement is complete, such as evidence of the purchase or repair of equipment, photographic or video evidence of abatement or other written records.

Issued

Feb 25, 2015

Abate by

Mar 17, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:   a)       5th Street, NW, Exposure  On or about 11/07/2014, masons performing brick laying from the platforms of a fabricated frame scaffold were exposed to a 13 foot fall hazard and had not been provided with fall protection.   Abatement certification and documentation required within 10 days after abatement date. The certification shall include a statement that abatement is complete, the date and method of abatement, and state that employees and their representatives were informed of this abatement. Abatement documentation shall include documents demonstrating that abatement is complete, such as evidence of the purchase or repair of equipment, photographic or video evidence of abatement or other written records.

Issued

Feb 25, 2015

Abate by

Mar 17, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(1): Each employee on a scaffold was not provided with additional protection from falling hand tools, debris, and other small objects through the installation of toeboards, screens, guardrail systems, or through the erection of debris nets, catch platforms, or canopy structures that contain or deflect the falling objects.  For falling objects too large, heavy or massive to be contained or deflected, the employer did not place and secure such potential falling objects away from the edge of the surface from which they could fall:   a)       5th Street, NW, Exposure  Masons working and walking below the scaffold platforms of a fabricated frame scaffold were exposed to a struck-by hazard from unrestrained loose brick and tools located on the upper platforms of the scaffold.   Abatement certification and documentation required within 10 days after abatement date. The certification shall include a statement that abatement is complete, the date and method of abatement, and state that employees and their representatives were informed of this abatement. Abatement documentation shall include documents demonstrating that abatement is complete, such as evidence of the purchase or repair of equipment, photographic or video evidence of abatement or other written records.