OSHA Inspection: GLEESON CONSTRUCTORS & ENGINEERS, LLC.

Issued

Dec 16, 2015

Abate by

Dec 28, 2015

Penalty

Initial $4,590 · Current $4,590

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.300(b)(2): Belts, gears, shafts, pulleys, sprockets, spindles, drums, fly wheels, chains, or other reciprocating, rotating or moving parts of equipment shall be guarded if such parts are exposed to contact by employees or otherwise create a hazard. Guarding shall meet the requirements as set forth in American National Standards Institute, B15.1-1953 (R1958), Safety Code for Mechanical Power-Transmission Apparatus.  a. In the career clothing room where an employee was mixing cement, the belt and pulley's on the electric mixer were unguarded, thereby exposing employees to a caught-in hazard.

Issued

Dec 16, 2015

Abate by

Dec 28, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,295 · Current $2,295

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.404(f)(6): Grounding path. The path to ground from circuits, equipment, and enclosures shall be permanent and continuous.  a. In the hallway where an employee plugged an extension cord into a temporary receptacle to provide power to a cement mixer, the ground prong was missing from the extension cord, thereby exposing the employee to an electrical contact hazard.

Issued

Dec 16, 2015

Abate by

Dec 28, 2015

Penalty

Initial $3,825 · Current $3,825

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.760(a)(1): Except as provided by paragraph (a)(3) of this section, each employee engaged in a steel erection activity who is on a walking/working surface with an unprotected side or edge more than 15 feet (4.6 m) above a lower level shall be protected from fall hazards by guardrail systems, safety net systems, personal fall arrest systems, positioning device systems or fall restraint systems.  a. On the roof of the engine room where an employee was securing the roof decking, fall protection was not used, thereby exposing the employee to a 29 foot fall hazard.