OSHA Inspection: ROBERT PURDY

Issued

2016-10-24 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-10-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3741.00 · Current $2617.00 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.    Location: 63 Upland Road, Cambridge, MA 02140.  On or about May 25, 2016, an employee was not protected from falling when working on scaffold platforms that were not fully planked.

Issued

2016-10-24 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-10-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3741.00 · Current $2617.00 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:    Location: 63 Upland Road, Cambridge, MA 02140.  On or about May 25, 2016, fabricated tubular frame scaffolds were being used which had supports that did not bear on baseplates and mudsills.

Issued

2016-10-24 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-10-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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: 63 Upland Road, Cambridge, MA 02140. On or about May 25, 2016, an employee was working on a fabricated tubular frame scaffold where its support legs were not supported, sound or rigged from being displaced.

Issued

2016-10-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3741.00 · Current $2617.00 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, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used. Crossbraces were used as a means of access.    Location: 61 Upland Road Cambridge, MA 02140.  On or about May 25, 2016, an employee was not provided with proper access to scaffold levels.

Issued

2016-10-24 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-10-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3741.00 · Current $2617.00 Reduced

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: 63 Upland Road, Cambridge, MA 02140.  On or about May 25, 2016, fabricated tubular scaffolds were not erected under the direction of a competent person.

Issued

2016-10-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3741.00 · Current $2617.00 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.    Location: 63 Upland Road, Cambridge, MA 02140.  On or about May 25, 2016, an employee was not protected from falling while working/walking on a pump jack scaffold at a height greater than 15 feet above lower level.

Issued

2016-10-24 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-10-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3741.00 · Current $2617.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(2): All brace connections were not secured.    Location: 63 Upland Road, Cambridge, MA 02140.  On or about May 25, 2016, fabricated tubular frame scaffolds were not fully cross braced.

Issued

2016-10-24 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-10-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(4): End frames of tubular welded frame scaffolding were not locked together vertically by use of pins or equivalent means in areas where uplift could occur.  Location: 63 Upland Road, Cambridge, MA 02140. On or about May 25, 2016, fabricated tubular scaffold end frames were not locked together which could cause uplift.

Issued

2016-10-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2672.00 · Current $1868.00 Reduced

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: 63 Upland Road, Cambridge, MA 02140.  On or about May 25, 2106, the employer allowed employees' to work on scaffolding without adequate training by a competent person to recognize hazards.