OSHA Inspection: TWIN BROTHERS ROOFING CORP.

Issued

Oct 14, 2015

Abate by

Oct 20, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,100 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(8): Direct access to or from another surface was used when the scaffold was more than 14 inches (36 cm) horizontally and/or 24 inches (61 cm) vertically from the other surface:    Jobsite:  Employees were having direct access to the roof from the ladder jack scaffold platform that was approximately 3 feet below the eve of the roof.

Issued

Oct 14, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1): Where portable ladders were used for access to an upper landing surface and the ladder's length allows, the ladder side rails did not extend at least 3 feet (.9 m) above the upper landing surface being accessed:    Jobsite:  The side rails of the ladder that was used to gain access to the ladder jack scaffold platform did not extend at least 3 feet above the landing surface.

Issued

Oct 14, 2015

Abate by

Oct 20, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,100 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(7): Scaffolds were not erected, moved, dismantled, or altered, by trained and experienced employees under the supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection, moving, dismantling or alteration:; Such activities were not performed only by experienced and trained employees selected for such work by the competent person:    Jobsite: The employer did not ensure that the scaffolds were erected and altered under the direct supervision of a competent person.

Issued

Oct 14, 2015

Abate by

Nov 2, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(a)(1): The employer failed to have each employee who performs work while on a scaffold trained regarding the nature of any electrical hazards, fall hazards and falling object hazards in the work area:  Jobsite: The employer did not ensure that all employees who were performing work from the scaffold were trained by a qualified person in the hazards related to the scaffold and the procedures to control or minimize these hazards.

Issued

Oct 14, 2015

Abate by

Nov 2, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(b): The employer did not have each employee involved in erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, maintaining, or inspecting a scaffold trained by a competent person to recognize any hazards associated with the work in question:  Jobsite: The employer did not have employees involved in erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, maintaining, or inspecting the ladder jack scaffold trained by a competent person to recognize any hazards associated with the work in question including the training topics as required by paragraphs (b)(1) through (b)(4) of this section.

Issued

Oct 14, 2015

Abate by

Oct 20, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,100 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(k)(1): Ladder jack scaffold platforms exceeded a height of 20 feet (6.1 m):    Jobsite:  The platform of the ladder Jack scaffold that the employees were using for the starter course and as access to the roof was greater than 20 feet above the ground.

Issued

Oct 14, 2015

Abate by

Oct 20, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,100 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(k)(5): Ladder Jack scaffold platforms were bridged one to another:    Jobsite:  The platforms of the ladder Jack scaffold that the employees were using for the starter course and to access the roof were bridged together.

Issued

Oct 14, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,600 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13): Each employee(s) engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels were not protected by guardrail systems, safety net system, or personal fall arrest system, nor were employee(s) provided with an alternative fall protection measure under another provision of paragraph 1926.501 (b):     Jobsite:  The employees who were working on the 4 in 12 pitch roof were not protected from the hazard of falling approximately 27 feet 7 inches to the ground by the use guardrails, safety nets or personal fall arrest systems.

Issued

Oct 14, 2015

Abate by

Oct 26, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.503(a)(1): The employer did not provide a training program for each employee potentially exposed to fall hazards to enable each employee to recognize the hazards of falling and the procedures to be followed in order to minimize these hazards:  Jobsite: The employees who were exposed fall hazards while working on the roof were not trained in fall hazards and the procedures to be followed to minimize such hazards.