OSHA Inspection: PEDRO TREJO

Issued

2015-06-16 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-07-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $400.00 · Current $400.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1903.19(c)(1):  The employer did not certify to OSHA, within 10 calendar days after the abatement date, that the cited violation had been abated:    Pedro Trejo, dba Pedro Trejo failed to certify to OSHA within 10 calendar days after the abatement date that each of the following cited violations had been corrected:    Citation Number                       Item Number                            Abatement Date  01                                            1a                                            04/20/2015 01                                            1b                                            04/20/2015 01                                            2                                              04/20/2015 01                                            3a                                            04/20/2015  01                                            3b                                            04/20/2015 01                                            3c                                            04/20/2015 01                                            4                                              04/20/2015  In accordance with 29 CFR 1903.19(c), abatement certification is required for this violation (using the CERTIFICATION OF CORRECTIVE ACTION WORKSHEET).

Issued

2015-04-14 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-04-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2800.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(2): Each scaffold platform and walkway was not at least 18 inches (46 cm) wide:  a)  The platform that was provided by the employer for the employees to work from was only 12 inches wide.  b)  The platform that was provided by the employer for the employees to work from was a single wood plank approximately 9.5 inches wide.

Issued

2015-04-14 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-04-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2):  Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames, and uprights did not bear on base plates and mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:    a)  Supported scaffold legs did not bear on base plates.

Issued

2015-04-14 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-04-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $2000.00

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.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access.     a)  Employees working from tubular welded frame scaffolding were not provided with proper access to a work platform being used at an elevation of approximately 11.3 feet above the ground.

Issued

2015-04-14 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-04-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $2000.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(7): Scaffolds shall be erected, moved, dismantled, or altered only under the supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection, moving, dismantling or alteration.  Such activities shall be performed only by experienced and trained employees selected for such work by the competent person:     a)  Employees required to erect a supported scaffold performed such activities without training or the direction of a competent person.

Issued

2015-04-14 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-04-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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:    a)  Employees were not trained to recognize and eliminate the hazards associated with working from scaffolding.

Issued

2015-04-14 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-04-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(b): The employer did not have each employee involved in erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, maintaining, or inspecting a scaffold trained by a competent person to recognize any hazards associated with the work in question.  a)  Employees were not trained to recognize and eliminate the hazards associated with erecting scaffolding.

Issued

2015-04-14 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-04-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2800.00

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.    a)  The employees were exposed to the hazard of falling while performing masonry work from tubular welded frame a scaffold platform elevated approximately 11.3 feet above the ground.