OSHA Inspection: MARTIN OROCIO

Issued

2016-08-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-09-30 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1604.00 · Current $1604.00

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):  On or about June 7, 2016, at 407 Little Carter Cove, Loganville, Georgia:  Five employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to eye and skin irritation while using Argos Type-N Mortar which contains chemicals which include but are not limited to Portland cement when the employer did not develop and implement a written hazard communication program to inform the employees how to recognize and minimize chemical hazards.

Issued

2016-08-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-09-30 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8): 1910.1200(g)(8):   The employer did not ensure that Safety Data Sheets were readily accessible during each work shift to employees when they were in their work area(s): (Construction Reference: 1926.59):  On or about June 7, 2016, at 407 Little Carter Cove, Loganville, Georgia:  Five employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to eye and skin irritation while working with Argos Type-N Mortar which contains chemicals which include but are not limited to Portland cement when the employer did not provide a safety data sheet to inform the employees how to recognize and minimize chemical hazards on the jobsite.

Issued

2016-08-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-09-30 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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):  On or about June 7, 2016, at 407 Little Carter Cove, Loganville, Georgia:  Five employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to eye and skin irritation while working with Argos Type-N Mortar containing chemicals which include but are not limited to Portland cement when the employer did not instruct the employees how to recognize and minimize chemical hazards on the jobsite.

Issued

2016-08-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-09-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2138.00 · Current $2138.00

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:  On or about June 7, 2016, at 407 Little Carter Cove, Loganville, Georgia:  Two employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to struck-by hazards from falling bricks, mortar buckets, and tools of the employees working above them while they worked below those employees on a tubular welded frame scaffold and/or the ground without wearing head protection.

Issued

2016-08-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-09-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3741.00 · Current $3741.00

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):  On or about June 7, 2016, at 407 Little Carter Cove, Loganville, Georgia:  Four employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 7-feet to 15-feet while working from the first and second buck work platforms that were not fully planked.

Issued

2016-08-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-09-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(4): Part(s) of a scaffold that were damaged or weakened, such that the scaffold's strength was less than that required by paragraph (a) of this section, were not immediately repaired, replaced, braced to meet those provisions, nor removed from service until repaired.  On or about June 7, 2016, at 407 Little Carter Cove, Loganville, Georgia:  Four employees performing brick masonry work from the work platforms of a tubular welded frame scaffold were exposed to fall hazards of up to approximately 15-feet when damaged planks were used to deck the work platforms.

Issued

2016-08-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-09-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3741.00 · Current $3741.00

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:  On or about June 7, 2016, at 407 Little Carter Cove, Loganville, Georgia:  Four employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 15-feet when they worked from the work platform of a scaffold that was set directly on the scaffold legs.   In accordance with 29 CFR 1903.19(d), abatement certification is required for this violation (using the CERTIFICATION OF CORRECTIVE ACTION WORKSHEET), and in addition, documentation demonstrating that abatement is complete must be included with your certification.  This documentation may include, but is not limited to, evidence of the purchase or repair of the equipment, photographic or video evidence of abatement, or other written records.

Issued

2016-08-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-09-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3741.00 · Current $3741.00

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.  On or about June 7, 2016, at 407 Little Carter Cove, Loganville, Georgia:  Four employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to fall hazards up to approximately 15-feet whlile climbing the frame of a tubular welded frame scaffold when the employer did not install a ladder.

Issued

2016-08-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-09-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3741.00 · Current $3741.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(4)(i): Guardrail systems were not installed along all open sides and ends of platforms.  On or about June 7, 2016, at 407 Little Carter Cove, Loganville, Georgia:  Four employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to fall hazards of up to approximately 15-feet when they worked on a tubular welded frame scaffold that did not have guard rails and end rails installed on the work platforms.

Issued

2016-08-26 00:00:00

Abate by

2016-09-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2138.00 · Current $2138.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(1): Each employee on a scaffold was not provided with additional protection from falling hand tools, debris, and other small objects through the installation of toeboards, screens, guardrail systems, or through the erection of debris nets, catch platforms, or canopy structures that contain or deflect the falling objects.  For falling objects too large, heavy or massive to be contained or deflected, the employer did not place and secure such potential falling objects away from the edge of the surface from which they could fall.  On or about June 7, 2016, at 407 Little Carter Cove, Loganville, Georgia:  Two employees performing brick masonry work were exposed to struck-by hazards from falling bricks, mortar buckets, and tools of the employees working above them when they worked beneath those employees on the work platform of a tubular welded frame scaffold and/or at ground level.