OSHA Inspection: JULIAN GARCIA

Issued

Mar 4, 2015

Abate by

Mar 10, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,440 · Current $1,440

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(4)(i): Guardrail systems were not installed along all open sides and ends of platforms:  (a) at the jobsite, employees were working on a scaffold, approximately 14 feet and 10 inches above the ground, with no guardrails.

Issued

Mar 4, 2015

Abate by

Mar 10, 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, sturcure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used:  (a) at the jobsite, end frames were used as a means of access on tubular welded frame scaffolding, approximately 14 feet, 10 inches above the ground, as no ladder was provided.

Issued

Mar 4, 2015

Abate by

Mar 10, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(2): Tubular welded frames and panels were not braced by cross, horizontal, or diagonal braces, or combination thereof, which would have secured vertical members together laterally:  (a) at the jobsite, tubular welded frame scaffolding, approximately 14 feet, 10 inches above the ground, was not braced with lateral bracing.

Issued

Mar 4, 2015

Abate by

Mar 10, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,080 · Current $1,080

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(a): The employer did not have each employee who performs work while on a scaffold(s) trained by a person qualified in the subject matter to recognize those hazards associated with the type of scaffold(s) being used and to understand the procedures to control or minimize those hazards:   (a) at the jobsite, employees were working on a tubular welded frame scaffold estimated to be 14 feet and 10 inches in height.  The employees were not trained to mitigate hazards of working from a temporary, elevated platform.

Issued

Mar 4, 2015

Abate by

Apr 8, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,080 · Current $1,080

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): The employer did not develop, implement, and/or maintain at the workplace a written hazard communication program which describes how the criteria specified in 29 CFR 1910.1200(f), (g), and (h) will be met (Construction Reference: 1926.59)  (a) at the jobsite, a written hazard communication program had not been developed and implemented.  Employees use hazardous substances such as Accent Vice Adhesive and Portland Cement, both corrosives, and sand containing crystalline silica.

Issued

Mar 4, 2015

Abate by

Mar 16, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8):   The employer did not maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical, and did not ensure that they were readily accessible during each work  shift to employees when they were in their work area(s) (Construction Reference: 1926.59):  (a) at the jobsite, safety data sheets (SDSs) for hazardous chemicals such as Accent Vice Adhesive and Portland Cement, both corrosives, were not maintained.

Issued

Mar 4, 2015

Abate by

Apr 8, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1): Employees were not provided effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment and whenever a new hazard that the employees had not been previously trained about was introduced into their work area (Construction Reference: 1926.59):  a) at the jobsite, employees using hazardous substances such as Accent Vice Adhesive and Portland Cement, both corrosives, and sand containing crystalline silica, were not provided with hazard communication training and information.