OSHA Inspection: KINGDOM STONE, LLC.

Issued

2016-03-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-04-15 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1200.00 · Current $360.00 Reduced

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)   At the residential construction site located at 15525 Switzer Road in Overland Park, Kansas:  Employees engaged in stone setting activities were exposed to health hazards from dermal, ingestion, and inhalation exposure to hazardous chemicals.  The employer had not developed or implemented a written hazard communication program to ensure that employees were aware of the hazards associated with the chemicals with which they work.  Hazardous chemicals used at the site included but were not limited to Ash Grove Portland lime mortar mix Type S.

Issued

2016-03-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-04-15 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1200.00 · Current $360.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8): The employer did not maintain copies of the required material safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical in the workplace: (Construction Reference: 1926.59)  At the residential construction site located at 15525 Switzer Road in Overland Park, Kansas:  Employees engaged in masonry activities were exposed to health hazards from dermal, ingestion, and inhalation exposure to hazardous chemicals.  A copy of the required safety data sheet for Ash Grove Portland lime mortar mix Type S was not maintained at the residential construction site.

Issued

2016-03-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-04-15 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1200.00 · Current $360.00 Reduced

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)  At the residential construction site located at 15525 Switzer Road in Overland Park, Kansas:  Employees engaged in masonry activities were exposed to health hazards resulting from dermal, ingestion, and inhalation exposure to hazardous chemicals. Employees had not been provided with training or information regarding the hazardous chemicals with which they work.  Hazardous chemicals such as Ash Grove Portland lime mortar mix Type S were used at the residential construction site.

Issued

2016-03-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-04-15 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $600.00 Reduced

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:  At the residential construction site located at 155252 Switzer Road in Overland Park, Kansas:  Employees engaged in masonry activities using a Dewalt 4 inch right angle grinder were exposed to struck-by hazards in that eye protection was not provided while cutting stone.

Issued

2016-03-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-04-15 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $600.00 Reduced

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):  At the residential construction site located at 15525 Switzer Road in Overland Park, Kansas:    Employees engaged in masonry activities from a tubular welded frame scaffold were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 14 feet from the working surface to the ground below in that the scaffold was not fully planked.

Issued

2016-03-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-04-15 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $600.00 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, sturcure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access:   At the residential construction site located at 15525 Switzer Road in Overland Park, Kansas:   Employees engaged in masonry activities from a tubular welded frame scaffold were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 14 feet from working surface to the ground below in that the scaffold was not equipped with an access ladder for the upper working level.

Issued

2016-03-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-04-15 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $840.00 Reduced

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.  At the residential construction site located at 15525 Switzer Road in Overland Park, Kansas:  Employees engaged in masonry activities from a tubular welded frame scaffold were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 14 feet from the upper working level of the scaffold to the ground below in that a guardrail system was not provided.

Issued

2016-03-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-04-15 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $480.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(c): When employees were exposed to falling objects the employer did not require employees to wear hard hats and did not implement measures to prevent objects from falling from higher levels as set forth in (c)(1)-(3) of this section:  At the residential construction site located at 15525 Switzer Road in Overland Park, Kansas:  Employees engaged in masonry activities below employees working at heights were exposed to struck-by hazards in that employees at the lower levels were not provided hard hats.

Issued

2016-03-29 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-04-15 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $480.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(16): Portable ladders with structural defects, such as, but not limited to, broken or missing rungs, cleats, or steps, broken or split rails, corroded components, or other faulty or defective components, were not either immediately marked in a manner that readily identifies them as defective, or tagged with "Do Not Use" or similar language, and were not withdrawn from service until repaired:  At the residential construction site located at 15525 Switzer Road in Overland Park, Kansas:  Employees engaged in masonry activities using a portable metal ladder to access the first level of the scaffold were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 8 feet from the portable ladder to the ground below in that the ladder was defective and was not removed from service