OSHA Inspection: EDDINGS MASONRY, INC.

Issued

May 27, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,445 · Current $1,012 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(vi): Each employee performing overhand bricklaying operations from a supported scaffold was not protected from falling from all open sides and ends of the scaffold (except at the side next to the wall being laid) by the use of a personal fall arrest system or guardrail system (with minimum 200 pound toprail capacity):    a) At 2435 Highway 67 South in Festus, MO - On or about 05/05/2015, employees were working from a "Hydro-Mobile" mast-tower scaffold system, approximately 12 feet or greater above a lower gravel and concrete surface containing cinder blocks and reinforcing steel, where one side of the scaffold system was missing guardrails, exposing employees to elevated fall hazards.

Issued

May 27, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,445 · Current $1,012 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.701(b): All protruding reinforcing steel, onto and/or into which employees could fall or come against, was not guarded to eliminate the hazard of impalement:     a) At 2435 Highway 67 South in Festus, MO - On or about 05/05/2015, employees were working from a "Hydro-Mobile" mast-tower scaffold system, approximately 12 feet or greater above unprotected rebar that was protruding from a lower foundation wall, exposing employees to struck against / impalement hazards.