OSHA Inspection: EXTERIOR WALLS, INC.

Issued

2015-03-09 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2800.00

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).  At the Residence Inn construction site along Colonial Avenue in Orlando, Mast Climber Scaffold #189185 was being used without a complete guardrail system exposing the employees working from it to a 25-foot fall hazard from the platform to the ground below, on or about February 4, 2015.  (b). At the Residence Inn construction site along Colonial Avenue in Orlando, Mast Climber Scaffold #168035 was being used without a complete guardrail system exposing the employee working from it to a 50-foot fall hazard from the platform to the ground below, on or about February 4, 2015.