OSHA Inspection: RICARDO RANGEL

Issued

Jun 1, 2015

Abate by

Jun 5, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $1,600

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 were not protected by protective helmets:   The employer does not ensure that employees working in the area where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or falling or flying objects were protected by protective helmets. This violation occurred on or about April 1, 2015 on the East side of the job site area where an employee was exposed to a struck-by hazard when working underneath a load of bricks that were on a second level of a scaffold.    Pursuant to 29 C.F.R. 1903.19, within ten (10) calendar days of the abatement date, the employer must submit documentation showing that it is in compliance with the standard, including describing the steps that it is taking to ensure that employees that were working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or falling or flying objects are protected by protective helmets.

Issued

Jun 1, 2015

Abate by

Jun 5, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

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.  The employer does not provide eye and face protective equipment when machines or operations presented potential eye or face injury. This violation occurred on or about April 1, 2015, when an employee was exposed to a struck-by hazard operating a Dewalt cut-off saw to cut brick without wearing eye and face protective equipment.  Pursuant to 29 C.F.R. 1903.19, within ten (10) calendar days of the abatement date, the employer must submit documentation showing that it is in compliance with the standard, including describing the steps that it is taking to ensure that employees use eye and face protective equipment when operations presented potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents.

Issued

Jun 1, 2015

Abate by

Jun 5, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $1,600

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.  The employer does not ensure that each platform on all working levels of scaffolds was fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports.  This violation occurred on or about April 1, 2015 when employees were exposed to a fall hazard while doing masonry work from the outrigger of a scaffold and first section without it being fully planked.  Pursuant to 29 C.F.R. 1903.19, within ten (10) calendar days of the abatement date, the employer must submit documentation showing that it is in compliance with the standard, including describing the steps that it is taking to ensure that working levels of scaffolds are fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports.

Issued

Jun 1, 2015

Abate by

Jun 5, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $1,600

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames,  or uprights did not bear on base plates, mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:  The employer does not ensure that scaffold legs bear on base plates and other adequate firm foundation.  This violation occurred on or about April 1, 2015 at the job site where employees were exposed to fall hazards when working on a scaffold without base plates.    Pursuant to 29 C.F.R. 1903.19, within ten (10) calendar days of the abatement date, the employer must submit documentation showing that it is in compliance with the standard, including describing the steps that it is taking to ensure that scaffold legs bear on base plates.

Issued

Jun 1, 2015

Abate by

Jun 5, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $1,600

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.  Cross braces were used as a means of access.  The employer does not ensure that employees have a ladder, stairway, or ramp to access a scaffold.  This violation occurred on or about April 1, 2015 when an employee was exposed to a fall hazard when climbing the cross braces more than 2 feet above the ground.  Pursuant to 29 C.F.R. 1903.19, within ten (10) calendar days of the abatement date, the employer must submit documentation showing that it is in compliance with the standard, including describing the steps that it is taking to ensure that employees have safe access to the scaffold platform.

Issued

Jun 1, 2015

Abate by

Jun 5, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $1,600

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(2): Tubular welded frames and panels were not braced by cross, horizontal, or diagonal braces, or combination thereof, which would have secured vertical members together laterally:  The employer does not ensure tubular welded frames and panels were braced by cross, horizontal, or diagonal braces, or combination thereof. This violation occurred on or about April 1, 2015, at the job site where employees were exposed to a struck-by hazard when they were permitted to work on a tubular welded scaffold that did not have cross braces on the second level next to the house.    Pursuant to 29 C.F.R. 1903.19, within ten (10) calendar days of the abatement date, the employer must submit documentation showing that it is in compliance with the standard, including describing the steps that it is taking to ensure that tubular welded frames and panels were braced by cross, horizontal, or diagonal braces, or combination thereof.