OSHA Inspection: VIKRAM CONSTRUCTION, INC.

Issued

May 7, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,760 · Current $880 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.21(b)(2): The employer did not instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his/her environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury:    On 4/24/2015, Home Street    a) The employees were exposed to serious hazards and not provided training as required by the standard.

Issued

May 7, 2015

Penalty

Initial $3,520 · Current $1,760 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:    On or about 4/24/2015, Home Street    a) The employee was not wearing eye protection when using the Bosch grinder to cut red brick.      The Vikram Construction, Inc. was previously cited for a violation of this occupational safety and health standard or its equivalent standard 29 CFR. 1626.102(a)(1), which was contained in OSHA inspection number 314978669, citation number 1, item number 2 and was affirmed as a final order on 12/6/2011, with respect to a workplace located at 200 Beacon Hill Drive, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522.

Issued

May 7, 2015

Penalty

Initial $3,520 · Current $1,760 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.404(f)(6): The path to ground from circuits, equipment, or enclosures was not permanent and continuous:    On or about 4/24/2015, Home Street    a) The extension cord had a broken ground pin and the outlet box had an open ground.      The Vikram Construction Inc. was previously cited for a violation of this occupational safety and health standard or its equivalent standard 29 CFR 1926.404(f)(6), which was contained in OSHA inspection number 314978669, citation number 1, item number 3 and was affirmed as a final order on 12/6/2011, with respect to a workplace located at 200 Beacon Hill Drive, Dobbs ferry, NY 10522.

Issued

May 7, 2015

Penalty

Initial $6,160 · Current $3,080 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Employees on scaffolds more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level by fall protection established in paragraphs (g)(1)(i)-(vii) of this section:    On or about 4/24/2015, Home Street    a) Employees were working from a platform of a tubular welded frame scaffold 12ft above lower level.  The scaffold did not have standard guardrails.       The Vikram Construction, Inc. was previously cited for a violation of this occupational safety and health standard or its equivalent standard 29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1), which was contained in OSHA inspection number 314978669, citation number 1, item number 8(a) and was affirmed as a final order on 12/6/2015, with respect to a workplace located at 200 Beacon Hill Drive, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522.

Issued

May 7, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): The employer did not develop, implement, and/or maintain at the workplace a written hazard communication program which describes how the criteria specified in 29 CFR 1910.1200(f), (g), and (h) will be met:   On or about 4/24/2015, Home Street  a) The employee was mixing masonry cement type N.  The employer did not have a hazard communication program.