OSHA Inspection: SHAM AGARWAL

Issued

2015-08-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $400.00 Reduced

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) 311 Newark Ave., Jersey City, NJ      Employee was exposed to a fall hazard approximately 10 feet due to the scaffold was not fully planked while performing job.        Violation occurred on or about 07/15/2015.

Issued

2015-08-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $400.00 Reduced

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, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access.      a) 311 Newark Ave., Jersey City, NJ      Employee was exposed to a fall hazard approximately 10 feet while climbing scaffold frames to access the work platform.          Violation occurred on or about 07/15/2015

Issued

2015-08-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $400.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level.      a) 311 Newark Ave., Jersey City, NJ      An employee working on the second tier of the scaffold approximately 10-foot above the surface was not protected by any means of fall protection.         Violation occurred on or about 07/15/2015.