OSHA Inspection: MEN DOING CONSTRUCTION INC

Issued

Dec 28, 2015

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,200 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.95(a): Personal protective equipment, including personal protective equipment for eyes, face, head, and extremities, protective clothing, respiratory devices, and protective shields and barriers, was not provided, used, or maintained in a sanitary and reliable condition it was necessary by reason of hazards of processes or environment, chemical hazards, radiological hazards, or mechanical irritants encountered in a manner capable of causing injury or impairment in the function of any part of the body through absorption, inhalation, or physical contact:    a) On or about November 23, 2015- job site at 160-43 26th Ave, Flushing, NY 11358    the employer permitted an employee to cut bricks with a Makita grinder without wearing eye      protection.    WRITTEN ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS NOT REQUIRED.

Issued

Dec 28, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:   a) On or about November 23, 2015- job site at 160-43 26th Ave, Flushing, NY 11358  the employer permitted employees to work below a scaffold where overhead masonry work was being performed.   WRITTEN ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS NOT REQUIRED.

Issued

Dec 28, 2015

Abate by

Jan 25, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $1,200 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.300(b)(1): Power operated tool(s), designed to accommodate guards, were not equipped with such guards when in use:    a) On or about November 23, 2015- job site at 160-43 26th Ave, Flushing, NY 11358    the employer permitted an employee to cut brick with a Makita 9557PB grinder that had its guard removed.     WRITTEN ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED.

Issued

Dec 28, 2015

Abate by

Jan 25, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,680 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1)(ii): The platform was not planked or decked as fully as possible and the remaining open space between the platform and the uprights exceeded 9.5 inches (24.1 cm):    a) On or about November 23, 2015- job site at 160-43 26th Ave, Flushing NY 11358    the employer permitted their employees to perform masonry work from a tubular welded frame scaffold that was not     fully planked at the work level.    WRITTEN ABATEMENT DOCUMENTATION IS REQUIRED.

Issued

Dec 28, 2015

Abate by

Jan 25, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames,  or uprights did not bear on base plates, mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:  a) On or about November 23, 2015- job site at 160-43 26th Ave, Flushing NY 11358  the employer permitted their employees to perform masonry work from a tubular welded frame scaffold that did not have   base plates or mud sills.  WRITTEN ABATEMENT DOCUMENTATION IS REQUIRED.

Issued

Dec 28, 2015

Abate by

Jan 25, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:  a) On or about November 23, 2015- job site at 160-43 26th Ave, Flushing NY 11358  the employer permitted their employees to access the working level of a tubular welded frame scaffold by climbing  the cross braces and frame.  WRITTEN ABATEMENT DOCUMENTATION IS REQUIRED.

Issued

Dec 28, 2015

Abate by

Jan 25, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level:   a) On or about November 23, 2015- job site at 160-43 26th Ave, Flushing NY 11358  the employer permitted their employees to perform masonry work from a tubular welded frame scaffold, approximately 20   feet above the next lower level, without fall protection.  WRITTEN ABATEMENT DOCUMENTATION IS REQUIRED.

Issued

Dec 28, 2015

Abate by

Jan 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:  a) On or about November 23, 2015- job site at 160-43 26th Ave, Flushing NY 11358  the employer permitted their employees to perform masonry work from a tubular welded frame scaffold that did not have  toe boards, while there was a worker directly below.  WRITTEN ABATEMENT DOCUMENTATION IS REQUIRED.

Issued

Dec 28, 2015

Abate by

Jan 25, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(2): Frames and panels were not braced by cross, horizontal, or diagonal braces, or combination thereof, which would secure vertical members together laterally, and the cross braces were not of such length as would  automatically square:  a) On or about November 23, 2015- job site at 160-43 26th Ave, Flushing NY 11358  the employer permitted their employees to perform masonry work from a tubular welded frame scaffold that did not have  all of the required cross bracing installed.  WRITTEN ABATEMENT DOCUMENTATION IS REQUIRED.