OSHA Inspection: SPECIALTY CONTRACTING

Issued

2016-05-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-05-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2160.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

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). Worksite located at 2428 Forest Ave., Kansas City, Missouri- Employees were observed working and waking beneath elevated materials and other employees and were not wearing any means of head protection.

Issued

2016-05-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2520.00 · Current $1500.00 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):     (a). Worksite located at 2428 Forest Ave., Kansas City, Missouri- Employees were exposed to a fall hazard in that the multiple platforms being used by the employees were not fully decked or planked.

Issued

2016-05-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-05-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2160.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(5)(i): The end of a platform 10 feet or less in length, extended over its support more than 12 inches:    (a). Worksite located at 2428 Forest Ave., Kansas City, Missouri- Employees were exposed to a fall hazard in that some of the planks extended more than 12" over the support and could cause the plank to cantilever and employee fall.

Issued

2016-05-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2520.00 · Current $2500.00 Reduced

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). Worksite located at 2428 Forest Ave., Kansas City, Missouri- Employees were exposed to a fall or scaffold collapse hazard in that many of the uprights were not bearing on base plates and mud sills.

Issued

2016-05-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2520.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

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). Worksite located at 2428 Forest Ave., Kansas City, Missouri- Employees were exposed to a fall or scaffolding collapse hazard in that the footing were put on an embankment with scrap materials being used to try to level up the footings.

Issued

2016-05-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2520.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2)(ii): Unstable objects were used to support scaffolds or platform units:    (a). Worksite located at 2428 Forest Ave., Kansas City, Missouri- Employees were exposed to a fall or scaffold collapse hazard in that the scaffold was being supported with unstable materials under the footing which could be easily displaced and cause the scaffold to fall.

Issued

2016-05-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-05-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1800.00 · Current $1000.00 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:     (a). Worksite located at 2428 Forest Ave., Kansas City, Missouri- Employees were exposed to a fall hazard in that the employer did not  provide the employees with a safe means of access from one section of scaffolding to another. Employees were observed using the cross-braces as a means of access.

Issued

2016-05-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2520.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet above a lower level was not protected from falling to that lower level:     (a). Worksite located at 2428 Forest Ave., Kansas City, Missouri- Employees were exposed to fall hazards while working on the scaffold platforms which were not provided with any means of fall protection such as guardrails.