OSHA Inspection: NEW VIEW DRYWALL, INC.

Issued

Feb 26, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(a)(1): Scaffold and scaffold components were not capable of supporting, without failure, its own weight and at least four times the maximum intended load applied or transmitted to it:  Location: 36 Lester Grey Drive Walpole, MA  Employees installing drywall were working from a Werner Task-Master Aluminum Planks when the 2x4 used to support the planks failed.

Issued

Feb 26, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Platform on all working levels of scaffolds, were not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and guardrail supports such that the space between adjacent units, and the space between the platform and the uprights.   Location:  36 Lester Grey Drive Walpole, MA  Employees were using tubular welded frame scaffolding that was not fully planked.

Issued

Feb 26, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(2): Scaffold platforms and walkways were not at least 18 inches wide.  Location: 36 Lester Grey Drive Walpole MA  Employees were working from a Werner Task-Master Aluminum Extension Plank that was approximately 12 inches wide.

Issued

Feb 26, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $0 Reduced

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.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access.  Location: 36 Lester Grey Drive Walpole, MA  Employees were exposed to fall hazards of 12 feet, while climbing the frames of a tubular welded frame scaffold to their working levels, where safe access was not provided.

Issued

Feb 26, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $0 Reduced

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.  Location: 36 Lester Grey Drive Walpole, MA  Scaffolding was not erected by employees under the direction of a competent person.

Issued

Feb 26, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level.  Location: 36 Lester Grey Drive, Walpole, MA  Employees were exposed to a fall hazard of 12 feet, while working from a scaffolding that had no guardrail systems, end rail systems, nor were personal fall arrest systems used or provided.

Issued

Feb 26, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $0 Reduced

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:  Location: 36 Lester Grey Drive Walpole, MA  Employer did not ensure all cross bracing was installed on a two tier scaffolding which was being used to support aluminum planks.