OSHA Inspection: B & B MASONRY

Issued

Jan 11, 2016

Abate by

Jan 20, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(d)(1)(iii): The employer did not identify and evaluate the respiratory hazard(s) in the workplace; this evaluation did not include a reasonable estimate of employee exposures to respiratory hazard(s) and an identification of the contaminant's chemical state and physical form.    a)      At the Band Hall Building, employees were exposed to respiratory hazards while cutting concrete material without the use of a wet method or respiratory protection.

Issued

Jan 11, 2016

Abate by

Jan 20, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): The employer did not develop, implement, and maintain at each workplace, a written hazard communication program which at least describes how the criteria specified in paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) of this section for labels and other forms of warning, material safety data sheets, and employee information and training will be met, and which also includes the following:  a)  At the Band Hall Building, employees used a Clipper saw to cut concrete without a wet method.  The employer did not develop a hazard communication program to warn employees of the dangers of silica dust.

Issued

Jan 11, 2016

Abate by

Jan 20, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.403(b)(2): Listed, labeled, or certified equipment was not installed and used in accordance with instructions included in the listing, labeling, or certification:  Band Hall Building, employees were exposed to electrical hazards while using:  a) Electrical receptacle boxes that were not installed inside of the walls to operate a concrete saw;  b) Romax cabling as an extension cord to power a concrete saw.

Issued

Jan 11, 2016

Abate by

Jan 20, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds were not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports as follows:  a)  At the Band Hall Building, employees were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 15-feet above the ground level below while working from tubular welded frame scaffolds that were not fully planked.

Issued

Jan 11, 2016

Abate by

Jan 20, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

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:  a)  At the Band Hall Building, employees were exposed to struck-by and/or crushed-by hazards while working from the third tier of a tubular welded frame scaffold that did not set on base plates to prevent collapse and/or displacement.

Issued

Jan 11, 2016

Abate by

Jan 20, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(3): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames, and uprights were not plumb and braced to prevent swaying and displacement:  a)  At the Band Hall Building, employees were exposed to struck-by and/or crushed-by hazards while working from a three tier tubular welded frame scaffold system than was not equipped with cross-bracing to prevent collapse and/or displacement.

Issued

Jan 11, 2016

Abate by

Jan 20, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

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 were not used:  a)  At the Band Hall Building, employees were exposed to fall hazards while ascending / descending up to three levels of a tubular welded frame scaffold without the use of a ladder.

Issued

Jan 11, 2016

Abate by

Jan 20, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(4)(i): Guardrail systems were not installed along all open sides and ends of platforms. Guardrail systems were not installed before the scaffold is released for use by employees other than erection/dismantling crews:   a)     At the Band Hall Building, employees were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 15-feet to the ground level below while working from the third tier of a tubular welded frame scaffold without the use of a guardrail system or personal fall arrest system.