OSHA Inspection: PANCHO MASONRY

Issued

2015-12-15 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-01-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

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, were not protected by protective helmets:     Employees without hard hats engaged in masonry operations on the ground were exposed to struck-by hazards while other employees worked from a scaffold containing bricks placed on the scaffold planks.

Issued

2015-12-15 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-01-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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 agents.   Employees without safety glasses were engaged in masonry work, on the north side of the building, while cutting bricks with a masonry saw and exposed to eye injuries.

Issued

2015-12-15 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-01-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1200.00 · Current $600.00 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 platforms.    Employees engaged in masonry operations, on the north side of the building, were exposed to fall  hazards while working from a scaffold platform that was not fully planked.

Issued

2015-12-15 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-01-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1400.00 Reduced

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.    Employees engaged in masonry operations, on the north side of the building, were exposed to caught-in and fall hazards while working from a scaffold that did not have mud sills.

Issued

2015-12-15 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-01-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1400.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(3): Scaffolds and scaffold components were not inspected for visible defects by a competent person before each work shift, and after any occurrence which could affect a scaffold's structural integrity.    Employees engaged in masonry operations, on the north side of the building, were exposed to fall and caught-in hazards while working from a scaffold that had not been inspected for defects.

Issued

2015-12-15 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-01-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.    Employees engaged in masonry operations, on the north side of the building, were exposed to fall hazards while working from a scaffold that did not have a ladder or other means of access to ascend and descend.

Issued

2015-12-15 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-01-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1400.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Employees on scaffolds more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level by fall protection established in paragraphs (g)(1)(i)-(vii) of this section:    Employees engaged in masonry operations, on the north side of the building, were exposed to fall hazards while working from the top level of a scaffold platform that was not guarded.

Issued

2015-12-15 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-01-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1400.00 Reduced

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 toe-boards, 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.    Employees engaged in masonry operations, on the north side of the building, were exposed to struck-by hazards while working from a scaffold that did not have toe-boards, screens, guardrail systems, or through the erection of debris nets, catch platforms, or canopy structures that contain or deflect the falling objects.