OSHA Inspection: ANDRAS AGUEILAR ROOFING

Issued

Mar 6, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $125 Reduced

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) Construction Site: On or about March 5, 2015 and at times prior, employees were exposed to a struck-by hazard while working under roof tear off activities.

Issued

Mar 6, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $125 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1):     Employees did not provide eye and face protection equipment when machines or operations present potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents:    a) Construction Site; On or about March 5, 2015 and at times prior, employees were exposed to eye injuries while attaching asphalt shingles with a pneumatic air nailers.

Issued

Mar 6, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,400 · Current $125 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(10): Each employee engaged in roofing activities on low-slope roofs with unprotected sides and edges 6 feet or more above lower levels, was not protected from falling by guardrail systems, safety net systems, personal fall arrest systems, or a combination of warning line system and guardrail system, warning line system and safety net system, or warning line system and personal fall arrest system, or warning line system and safety monitoring system.  Or, on roofs 50-feet (15.25 m) or less in width, each employee was not protected by use of a monitoring system:    a) Construction Site; On or about March 5, 2015 and at times prior, employees were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 14 feet to sidewalk below while installing asphalt shingles on a 4:12 slope roof.

Issued

Mar 6, 2015

Abate by

Apr 1, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.503(a)(1): The employer did not provide a training program for each employee potentially exposed to fall hazards to enable each employee to recognize the hazards of falling and the procedures to be followed in order to minimize these hazards:  a) Construction Site; On or about March 5, 2015 and at times prior, employees were exposed to a fall of approximately 14 feet to sidewalk below due to lack of adequate training in the recognition of fall hazards and the means to control these hazards.

Issued

Mar 6, 2015

Abate by

Apr 1, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $125 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1): Where (a) portable ladder(s) were used for access to an upper level landing surface and the ladder's length did not allow the ladder side rails to extend at least 3 feet (0.9 m) above the upper landing surface being accessed, the ladder was not secured at its top to a rigid support that will not deflect, and/or a grasping device was not provided to assist employees in mounting and dismounting the ladder:    a) Construction Site; On or about March 5, 2015 and at times prior, employees were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 14 feet to sidewalk below while using an improper ladder to gain access and egress the roof.

Issued

Mar 6, 2015

Abate by

Apr 1, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1060(a): The employer did not provide a training program for each employee using ladders and stairways, as necessary, which would enable each employee to recognize hazards related to ladders and stairways and train each employee in the procedures to be followed to minimize these hazards:  a) Construction Site; On or about March 5, 2015 and at times prior, employees were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 14 feet due to lack of adequate training in the recognition of ladder hazards and the means to control these hazards.