OSHA Inspection: JORGE MIRANDA DBA JORGE'S ROOFING

Issued

2015-04-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-04-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1400.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): Eye and face protective equipment were not used when machines or operations presented potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents.  Location:  199 Ethan Allen Highway, Ridgefield, CT 06877    The employer did not provide, and ensure the use of, safety glasses for employees who were operating pneumatic nail guns.

Issued

2015-04-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-04-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1960.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(11): Each employee on a steep roof with unprotected sides and edges 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels was not protected from falling by guardrail systems with toeboards, safety net systems, or personal fall arrest systems:  Location:  199 Ethan Allen Highway, Ridgefield, CT 06877    An adequate fall protection system was not in place while employees performed roofing work on a steep pitched roof with an eave to ground height of approximately 18 feet 6 inches.

Issued

2015-04-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-05-07 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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:  Location:  199 Ethan Allen Highway, Ridgefield, CT 06877    The employer did not ensure that each employee who was required to perform roofing work had been adequately trained in fall hazards and the proper means and/or procedures in order to minimize those hazards.

Issued

2015-04-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-04-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1400.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1): Where portable ladders were used for access to an upper landing surface and the ladder's length allows, the ladder side rails did not extend at least 3 feet (.9 m) above the upper landing surface being accessed:   Location:  199 Ethan Allen Highway, Ridgefield, CT 06877    The two aluminum extension ladders, which were being used to access the roof work surface, did not extend at least three feet above the upper landing surface or eave of the roof.

Issued

2015-04-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-05-07 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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.  Location:  199 Ethan Allen Highway, Ridgefield, CT 06877    The employer did not ensure that each employee had been adequately trained in the safe use of portable ladders in order to recognize the hazards associated with portable ladders and the means/procedures to minimize and/or eliminate those hazards.