OSHA Inspection: AMARO FUENTES CONSTRUCTION LLC

Issued

2015-08-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1760.00 · Current $1760.00

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:  A- Building Exterior: An employee working on the second scaffold section was exposed to an overhead impact hazard as head protection was not utilized. Condition noted on or about 05/29/2015.

Issued

2015-08-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2200.00 · Current $2200.00

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.  a- Building Exterior: An employee using a pneumatic nail gun was exposed to eye injury as eye protection was not utilized. Condition noted on or about 05/29/2015.

Issued

2015-08-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3080.00 · Current $3080.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolding was not fully planked or decked:  a- Building Exterior: Employees were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 12 & 18 ft to the ground below as the scaffold platform consisted of only 2 planks as full planking was not utilized. Condition noted on or about 05/29/2015.

Issued

2015-08-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3080.00 · Current $3080.00

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, sturcure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access.  a- Building Exterior: Employees were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 12 & 18 ft to the ground below as a means of scaffold access and egress was not utilized. Condition noted on or about 05/29/2015

Issued

2015-08-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3080.00 · Current $3080.00

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:  a- Building Exterior: Employees engaged in stucco work from the second and third scaffold section was exposed to fall hazards of approximately 12-18ft as a means of fall protection was not utilized. Condition noted on or about 05/29/2015.

Issued

2015-08-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3080.00 · Current $3080.00

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:  a- Building Exterior: Employees were exposed to scaffold collapse as 11 of 18 cross braces were missing from the scaffold frame. Condition noted on or about 05/29/2015.