OSHA Inspection: GABRIEL TENORE MASON CONTRACTOR LLC

Issued

Aug 1, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

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)  Location:  347 Wilton Road West, Ridgefield, CT 06877    The tubular frame scaffold platform 20 feet above ground level was not fully planked.

Issued

Aug 1, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(5)(ii): The end of a platform greater than 10 feet in length extended over its support more than 18 inches and the platform was not designed and installed so that the cantilevered portion of the platform is able to support employees without tipping, or has guardrails which block employee access to the cantilivered end.  Location: 347 Wilton Road West, Ridgefield, CT 06877    The end of each scaffold platform where the platform planks ends extended greater than 18 inches from its supports were not designed and installed so the cantilevered portion of the platform was able to support employees without tipping or equipped with guardrails to block employee access.

Issued

Aug 1, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

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:  Location: 347 Wilton Road West, Ridgefield, CT 06877    Scaffold support poles did not have both a base plates, mud sills or other adequate firm foundation.

Issued

Aug 1, 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:  Location: 347 Wilton Road West, Ridgefield, CT 06877    Scaffold support poles resting on wood, bricks and concrete blocks were not placed on stable and firm supports.

Issued

Aug 1, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

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.  Location: 347 Wilton Road West, Ridgefield, CT 06877    The scaffold platforms 20 feet above the ground on the tubular welded frame scaffolds were not equipped with a safe means of access.

Issued

Aug 1, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(3): Scaffolds and scaffold components were not inspected for visible defects by a competent person before each work shift, and after any occurrence which could affect a scaffold's structural integrity:  Location:  347 Wilton Road West, Ridgefield, CT 06877    Inspections by a competent person were not conducted before each work shift to identify structural integrity issues and visible defects.

Issued

Aug 1, 2016

Abate by

Sep 16, 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.  Location:  347 Wilton Road West, Ridgefield, CT 06877    Tubular welded frame scaffolds were not erected under the supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection.

Issued

Aug 1, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $2,800

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(5)(i): Ramps and walkways 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels did not have guardrail systems that comply with subpart M of this part -- Fall Protection:  Location: 347 Wilton Road West, Ridgefield, CT 06877    The one 2x10 which was 10.5 inches wide to gain access to the two tubular welded frame scaffolds at the front of the house was not equipped with a fall protection systems.

Issued

Aug 1, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(vii): Each employee on a scaffold, not otherwise specified in paragraphs (g)(1)(i) through (g)(1)(vi) of this section, more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above lower level was not protected from falls by the use of personal fall arrest systems or guardrail systems meeting the requirements of paragraph (g)(4) of this section.  Location:  347 Wilton Road West, Ridgefield, CT 06877    Each employees performing work on tubular welded frame scaffolds were not protected from 14 foot and 20 foot falls to the ground by use of a personal fall arrest system or guardrail system.    Consequently, on or about 11 May 2016, an employee sustained injuries after falling from a scaffold platform on a tubular frame scaffold.

Issued

Aug 1, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $2,000

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(2): Tubular welded frames and panels were not braced by cross, horizontal, or diagonal braces, or combination thereof, which would have secured vertical members together laterally:  Location: 347 Wilton Road West, Ridgefield, CT 06877    A tubular frame scaffold did not have all the required cross bracing in place while in use.

Issued

Aug 1, 2016

Abate by

Sep 16, 2016

Penalty

Initial $1,200 · Current $1,200

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(a): The employer did not have each employee who performed work while on a scaffold trained by a person qualified in the subject matter to recognize the hazards associated with the type of scaffold being used and to understand the procedures to control or minimize those hazards.  Location:  347 Wilton Road West, Ridgefield, CT 06877    Each employee performing work on tubular welded frame scaffolds were not trained by a qualified person in the appropriate subject matter to be able to recognized hazards associated with tubular welded frame scaffolds and know the procedures to use to control, minimize and/or eliminate those hazards.

Issued

Aug 1, 2016

Abate by

Sep 16, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(b): The employer did not have each employee involved in erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, maintaining, or inspecting a scaffold trained by a competent person to recognize any hazards associated with the work in question.  Location:  347 Wilton Road West, Ridgefield, CT 06877    Each employee erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, maintaining or inspecting tubular welded frame scaffolds was not trained by competent person to recognize the hazards associated with tubular welded frame scaffolds.