OSHA Inspection: KIM NY CONSTRUCTION, INC.

Issued

2015-06-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $0.00 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 or about 5/13/15, Central Park Ave.   a) The employees were not provided safety and health training as required by the standard.

Issued

2015-06-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

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, or from electrical shock and burns, were not protected by protective helmets:  On or about 5/13/2015, Central Park Ave.  a) The employees walking and working below the scaffold were not wearing their hard hats.

Issued

2015-06-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

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 as specified in paragraphs 1926.451(b)(1)(i)-(ii):  On or about 5/13/15, Central Park Ave.  a) The scaffold had two wood planks on the working level and exposed the employee to an 11-12' fall hazard.

Issued

2015-06-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(2): Scaffold platforms and walkways were not at least 18 inches wide:  On or about 5/13/15, Central Park Ave.  a) There was a walkway between both scaffolds. It was not 18" wide.

Issued

2015-06-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

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:  On or about 5/13/15, Central Park Ave.  a) The scaffold legs rested on cinderblocks and broken pieces of wood.

Issued

2015-06-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2400.00 · Current $0.00 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 5/13/15, Central Park Ave.  a) The 11- 12' high tubular welded frame scaffold did not have standard guardrails.

Issued

2015-06-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1200.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(8): Ladders placed in a location where they could be displaced by workplace activities or traffic, such as in passageways, doorways, or driveways, were not secured to prevent accidental displacement, nor was a barricade used to keep the activities or traffic away from the ladder:  On or about 5/13/2015, Central Park Ave.  a) The ladder was not secured and used to gain access to and from the scaffold.