OSHA Inspection: CANDLE CONSTRUCTION, LLC

Issued

Aug 12, 2015

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $960 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Platform(s) on all working levels of scaffolds, were not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and guardrail supports such that the space between adjacent units, and the space between the platform and the uprights.  At this commercial building under construction, employees were applying stucco to the exterior wall while on the second level of a supported frame scaffold not fully planked.  The working platform of the scaffold consisted of two planks, exposing the employee to a fall hazard of 13 feet to the ground below.

Issued

Aug 12, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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.  At this commercial building under construction, employees were applying stucco to the building and were accessing the second level of a supported frame scaffold by jumping onto a small portable ladder below the scaffold.  Lack of access exposed employees to a fall hazard of 13.9 feet to the ground below.