OSHA Inspection: C.B. MASONRY, INC

Issued

Apr 4, 2016

Abate by

Apr 25, 2016

Penalty

Initial $6,930 · Current $5,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1)(i): Each platform unit (e.g., scaffold plank, fabricated plank, fabricated deck, or fabricated platform) was not installed so that the space between adjacent units and the space between the platform and the uprights were no more than 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide, except where the employer can demonstrate that a wider space is necessary.    Employees worked from a supported scaffold to perform masonry activities which had excessive spacing between planks of greater than 1 inch.

Issued

Apr 4, 2016

Abate by

Apr 25, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(2)(ii): A toeboard was not erected along the edge of platforms more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above lower levels for a distance sufficient to protect employees below:   Employees worked from a supported scaffold while performing masonry activities which did not have toeboards erected along the edge of platforms to prevent ground level employees from being struck by overhead tools, materials, or equipment.

Issued

Apr 4, 2016

Abate by

Apr 25, 2016

Penalty

Initial $6,930 · Current $5,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(4): Each end of a platform, which was not cleated or otherwise restrained by hooks or equivalent means, did not extend over the centerline of its support at least 6 inches:    Employees worked from a supported scaffold to perform masonry activities, which had insufficient overhang of supports or cleating.

Issued

Apr 4, 2016

Abate by

Apr 25, 2016

Penalty

Initial $6,930 · Current $5,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(1)(iii): Ties, guys, braces, or outriggers were not installed to prevent the tipping of supported scaffolds in all circumstances where an eccentric load, such as a cantilevered work platform, was applied or was transmitted to the scaffold:     Ties, guys, braces, or outriggers were not used for cantilevered work platform.

Issued

Apr 4, 2016

Abate by

Apr 25, 2016

Penalty

Initial $6,930 · Current $5,000 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:     Instance a:  Employees on a supported scaffold were using the end frames of the scaffold as a means of access from the scaffold platforms.     Instance b:  Employees on a baker's scaffold were using the crossbraces of the scaffold as a means of access from the scaffold platform.

Issued

Apr 4, 2016

Abate by

Apr 25, 2016

Penalty

Initial $6,930 · Current $5,000 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:    An employee unloading bricks from a pallet on raised forks of a forklift was exposed to an 18 foot fall without fall protection.

Issued

Apr 4, 2016

Abate by

Apr 25, 2016

Penalty

Initial $6,930 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(4)(i): Guardrail systems were not installed along all open sides and ends of platforms before being released for use by employees other than erection/dismantling crews:     Employees were working from a supported scaffold which did not have a guardrail system installed along all open sides and ends of the scaffold.