OSHA Inspection: JOSEPH BOSADA

Issued

2015-10-23 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-11-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1200.00 · Current $1200.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): The employer did not develop, implement, and/or maintain at the workplace a written hazard communication program which describes how the criteria specified in 29 CFR 1910.1200(f), (g), and (h) will be met: (Construction Reference: 1926.59):  On or about October 13, 2015, at Denny's, 2929 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, Suwanee, Georgia:  An employee performing stucco work was exposed to eye and skin irritation while using Sto Primer/Adhesive and Sto Fine Sand Finish which contain chemicals which include but are not limited to titanium oxide and crystalline silica when the employer did not develop a written hazard communication program to inform the employee how to recognize and minimize those hazards.

Issued

2015-10-23 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-11-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1200.00 · Current $1200.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8):   The employer did not maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical, and did not ensure that they were readily accessible during each work  shift to employees when they were in their work area(s): (Construction Reference: 1926:59):  On or about October 13, 2015 at Denny's, 2929 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, Suwanee, Georgia:  An employee performing stucco work was exposed to eye and skin irritation while using Sto Primer/Adhesive and Sto Fine Sand Finish which contain chemicals which include but are not limited to titanium oxide and crystalline silica  when the employer did not keep copies of the safety data sheets onsite to inform and advise the employee how to recognize and minimize those hazards.

Issued

2015-10-23 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-11-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1): Employees were not provided effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment and whenever a new hazard that the employees had not been previously trained about was introduced into their work area: (Construction Reference: 1926.59):  On or about October 13, 2015, at Denny's, 2929 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, Suwanee, Georgia:  An employee performing stucco work was exposed to eye and skin irritation while using STO Primer/Adhesive and Sto Fine Sand Finish which contain chemicals which include but are not limited to titanium oxide and crystalline silica when the employer did not inform and instruct the employee how to recognize and minimize the hazards of working with these chemicals.

Issued

2015-10-23 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-11-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1200.00 · Current $1200.00

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:  On or about October 13, 2015, at Denny's, 2929 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, Suwanee, Georgia:  An employee performing stucco work was exposed to struck-by hazards from falling trowels and five gallon buckets of stucco when he worked beneath a scaffold storing these materials without wearing a hard hat.

Issued

2015-10-23 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-11-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1200.00 · Current $1200.00

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.  On or about October 13, 2015, at Denny's, 2929 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, Suwanee, Georgia:  An employee performing stucco work was exposed to eye irritation while working with the stucco which contained chemicals which include but are not limited to titanium oxide and crystalline silica without using eye protection.

Issued

2015-10-23 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-11-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $2000.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(a)(1): Each scaffold and/or scaffold component was not capable of supporting, without failure, its own weight and at least 4 times the maximum intended load applied or transmitted to it:  On or about October 13, 2015, at Denny's, 2929 Lawrenceville-Suwanee, Georgia:  An employee performing stucco work was exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 11.3-feet when he worked from the second buck work platform of a scaffold that did not use scaffold grade materials such as a strip of a 1/2 inch piece of plywood set on top of a cut 2x4, and 2x12, which the employer laid across the frame of the scaffold.

Issued

2015-10-23 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-11-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3500.00 · Current $3500.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds was not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports as specified in paragraphs 1926.451(b)(1)(i)-(ii):  On or about October 13, 2015, at Denny's, 2929 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, Suwanee, Georgia:  An employee performing stucco work was exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 11.3-feet when he worked from the second buck work platform of a scaffold that was not fully decked.

Issued

2015-10-23 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-11-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $2000.00

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.  On or about October 13, 2015, at Denny's, 2929 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, Suwanee, Georgia:  An employee performing stucco work was exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 11.3-feet when he climbed the frame of a scaffold to get up to and down from the second buck work platform when the employer did not install a ladder.

Issued

2015-10-23 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-11-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3500.00 · Current $3500.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(4)(i): Guardrail systems were not installed along all open sides and ends of platforms.  On or about October 13, 2015, at Denny's, 2929 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, Suwanee, Georgia:  An employee performing stucco work was exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 11.3-feet when he worked from the second buck work platform of a scaffold that did not have guard rails and end rails installed.

Issued

2015-10-23 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-11-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $1600.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(1): Each employee on a scaffold was not provided with additional protection from falling hand tools, debris, and other small objects through the installation of toeboards, screens, guardrail systems, or through the erection of debris nets, catch platforms, or canopy structures that contain or deflect the falling objects.  For falling objects too large, heavy or massive to be contained or deflected, the employer did not place and secure such potential falling objects away from the edge of the surface from which they could fall.  On or about October 13, 2015, at the Denny's, 2929 Lawrenceville-Suwanee Road, Suwanee, Georgia:  An employee performing stucco work was exposed to struck-by hazards from falling trowels and five gallon buckets of stucco when he worked beneath a scaffold work platform that did not have toe boards installed.