OSHA Inspection: ROGELIO GARCIA

Issued

Mar 26, 2015

Abate by

Apr 1, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $960 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:  On or about March 12, 2015, at intersection of Highway 337 and IH 35, New Braunfels, TX, the employees were observed not wearing any head protection. Employees exposed to a struck by hazard from material or tools falling from the scaffolding.

Issued

Mar 26, 2015

Abate by

Apr 1, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(2)(ii): A toeboard was not erected along the edge of platforms more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above lower levels for a distance sufficient to protect employees below:   On or about March 12, 2015, at intersection of Highway 337 and IH 35, New Braunfels, TX, the employees were working below the scaffolding.  Employees exposed to a struck by hazard from material or tools falling from the scaffolding.

Issued

Mar 26, 2015

Abate by

Apr 1, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,200 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:  On or about March 12, 2015, at intersection of Highway 337 and IH 35, New Braunfels, TX, the employer failed to ensure the employees had fall protection. The employees were observed installing screen on the sides of the building. The employees were exposed to a fall hazard of nineteen feet.

Issued

Mar 26, 2015

Abate by

Apr 1, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds was not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports:  On or about March 12, 2015, at intersection of Highway 337 and IH 35, New Braunfels, TX, the employer failed to ensure the working area on the scaffolding was fully planked. Employees exposed to a nineteen feet fall hazard.

Issued

Mar 26, 2015

Abate by

Apr 1, 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:    On or about March 12, 2015, at intersection of Highway 337 and IH 35, New Braunfels, TX, the employer failed to ensure there was a safe way to ascend and descend the scaffolding. The employees were observed climbing the side of the scaffolding.  The employees were exposed to a nineteen feet fall hazard

Issued

Mar 26, 2015

Abate by

Apr 1, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(2): Frames and panels were not braced by cross, horizontal, or diagonal braces, or combination thereof, which would secure vertical members together laterally, and the cross braces were not of such length as would  automatically square:   On or about March 12, 2015, at intersection of Highway 337 and IH 35, New Braunfels,TX, the employer failed to ensure the scaffolding had all the required cross bracing. The employees were exposed to a fall hazard of nineteen feet.

Issued

Mar 26, 2015

Abate by

Apr 15, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $720 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(a): The employer did not have each employee who performed work while on a scaffold trained by a person qualified in the subject matter to recognize the hazards associated with the type of scaffold being used and to understand the procedures to control or minimize those hazards:   On or about March 12, 2015, at intersection of Highway 337 and IH 35, New Braunfels, TX , the employer failed to ensure the employees were trained to recognized the fall hazards and procedures to control and minimize those hazards. The employees were exposed to a nineteen feet fall hazard while working on the scaffolding.