OSHA Inspection: GLOBAL GROUP INDUSTRIES CORPORATION

Issued

Apr 22, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,200 · Current $2,200

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 March 31, 2016- job site of 82-06 Tyron Place, Jamaica, NY 11432  an employee was using a screw gun and screws to attach insulation to the side of a house without wearing eye  protection.  WRITTEN ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS NOT REQUIRED.

Issued

Apr 22, 2016

Abate by

May 4, 2016

Penalty

Initial $3,080 · Current $3,080

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 March 31, 2016- job site of 82-06 Tyron Place, Jamaica, NY 11432  two employees were working on a tubular welded frame scaffold that was not fully planked at the work level.  WRITTEN ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED.

Issued

Apr 22, 2016

Abate by

May 4, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2)(i): Footings were not level, sound, rigid, and capable of supporting the loaded scaffold without settling or displacement:  a)  On or about March 31, 2016- job site of 82-06 Tyron Place, Jamaica, NY 11432  two employees were working on a tubular welded frame scaffold that has its footing on piles of uneven and shifting soil.  WRITTEN ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED.

Issued

Apr 22, 2016

Abate by

May 4, 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, sturcure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used:  a)  On or about March 31, 2016- job site of 82-06 Tyron Place, Jamaica, NY 11432  two employees were working on a tubular welded frame scaffold that had no access ladder.  WRITTEN ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED.

Issued

Apr 22, 2016

Abate by

May 4, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(7): Scaffolds were not erected, moved, dismantled, or altered, by trained and experienced employees under the supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection, moving, dismantling or alteration:; Such activities were not performed only by experienced and trained employees selected for such work by the competent person:  a)  On or about March 31, 2016- job site of 82-06 Tyron Place, Jamaica, NY 11432  two employees were working on a tubular welded frame scaffold that was not erected by experienced employees under   the supervision of a competent person.  WRITTEN ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED.

Issued

Apr 22, 2016

Abate by

May 4, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:  a)  On or about March 31, 2016- job site of 82-06 Tyron Place, Jamaica, NY 11432  two employees were working on a tubular welded frame scaffold, approximately 15 feet above the next lower level,   without fall protection.  WRITTEN ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED.

Issued

Apr 22, 2016

Abate by

May 4, 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 March 31, 2016- job site of 82-06 Tyron Place, Jamaica, NY 11432  two employees were working on a tubular welded frame scaffold that was missing cross bracing on several sections of the   scaffold.  WRITTEN ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION IS REQUIRED.