OSHA Inspection: REYES STUCCO, LLC

Issued

Jul 26, 2016

Abate by

Sep 12, 2016

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $0 Reduced

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)  At the residential construction site located at 16440 Garnett in Overland Park, Kansas:  Employees engaged in stucco installation activities were exposed to dermal, ingestion, and inhalation hazards from exposure to hazardous chemicals.  The employer had not developed or implemented a written hazard communication program to ensure that employees were aware of the hazards associated with the chemicals with which they work.  Hazardous chemicals used at the site included but were not limited to gasoline, Ash Grove Masonry Cement type 5, and Quikrete Fiberglass Reinforced Stucco.

Issued

Jul 26, 2016

Abate by

Aug 12, 2016

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(f)(5)(i): The employer did not ensure that each container of hazardous chemicals in the workplace was labeled, tagged or marked with the identity of the hazardous chemical(s) contained therein: (Construction Reference: 1926.59)  At the residential construction site located at 16440 Garnett in Overland Park, Kansas:  Employees engaged in stucco installation activities were exposed to dermal, ingestion, and inhalation hazards from exposure to hazardous chemicals.  Gasoline that was dispensed into the mixer was stored in a yellow secondary container that was labeled as containing diesel.

Issued

Jul 26, 2016

Abate by

Aug 12, 2016

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8): The employer did not maintain copies of the required material safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical in the workplace: (Construction Reference: 1926.59)  At the residential construction site located at 16440 Garnett in Overland Park, Kansas:  Employees engaged in stucco installation activities were exposed to dermal, ingestion, and inhalation hazards from exposure to hazardous chemicals.  The employer did not maintain a copy of the required safety data sheets to ensure that employees were aware of the hazards associated with the chemicals with which they work.  Hazardous chemicals used at the site included but were not limited to gasoline, Ash Grove Masonry Cement type 5, and Quikrete Fiberglass Reinforced Stucco.

Issued

Jul 26, 2016

Abate by

Aug 12, 2016

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $0 Reduced

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)  At the residential construction site located at 16440 Garnett in Overland Park, Kansas:  Employees engaged in stucco installation activities were exposed to from dermal, ingestion, and inhalation hazards from exposure to hazardous chemicals.  The employer had not provided training or information to ensure that employees were aware of the hazards associated with the chemicals with which they work.  Hazardous chemicals used at the site included but were not limited to gasoline, Ash Grove Masonry Cement type 5, and Quikrete Fiberglass Reinforced Stucco.

Issued

Jul 26, 2016

Abate by

Aug 12, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $0 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)  At the residential construction site located at 16440 Garnett in Overland Park, Kansas:  Employees engaged in stucco installation activities were exposed to fall hazards of up to 20 feet in that the supported scaffolds were not fully planked.

Issued

Jul 26, 2016

Abate by

Aug 12, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames, and uprights did not bear on base plates and mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:  At the residential construction site located at 16440 Garnett in Overland Park, Kansas:  Employees engaged in stucco installation activities were exposed to scaffold collapse and fall hazards of up to 20 feet in that the scaffold frames were not provided with base plates and mud sills.  Scaffold frames were either supported by base plates or mud sills but not both, exposing employees to a scaffold collapse.

Issued

Jul 26, 2016

Abate by

Aug 12, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(3): Supported scaffold poles, legs, post, frames, and/or uprights were not plumb and braced to prevent swaying and displacement:  At the residential construction site located at 16440 Garnett in Overland Park, Kansas:  Employees engaged in stucco installation activities were exposed to scaffold collapse and fall hazards up to 20 feet in that all of the supported scaffolding was missing cross-bracing on the side of the scaffold closest to the building.

Issued

Jul 26, 2016

Abate by

Aug 12, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $0 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:  At the residential construction site located at 16440 Garnett in Overland Park, Kansas:  Employees engaged in stucco installation activities were exposed to fall hazards of up to 20 feet while climbing scaffold frames.  The supported scaffolds were not provided with ladder access.

Issued

Jul 26, 2016

Abate by

Aug 12, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(15): Ladders were used on scaffolds to increase the working level height of employees: without satisfying the criteria of subparagraphs (i) - (iv) of this paragraph:  At the residential construction site located at 16440 Garnett in Overland Park, Kansas:  An employee engaged in stucco installation activities was exposed to fall hazards of 15 feet to the ground below in that a step ladder was used on the second tier of the supported scaffold.

Issued

Jul 26, 2016

Abate by

Aug 12, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $0 Reduced

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:  At the residential construction site located at 16440 Garnett in Overland Park, Kansas:  Employees engaged in stucco installation activities were exposed to injury from a fall hazard of up to 20 feet from the upper working level of the scaffold to the ground below.  The employees were exposed in that a complete guardrail system was not in place.

Issued

Jul 26, 2016

Abate by

Aug 12, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13): Each employee(s) engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels were not protected by guardrail systems, safety net system, or personal fall arrest system, nor were employee(s) provided with an alternative fall protection measure under another provision of paragraph 1926.501 (b):   At the residential construction site located at 16440 Garnett in Overland Park, Kansas:  Employees engaged in stucco installation activities while working from the roof were exposed to fall hazards of up to 13 feet 8 inches from the eave of the residence to the ground below in that fall protection was not provided.

Issued

Jul 26, 2016

Abate by

Aug 12, 2016

Penalty

Initial $1,600 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.503(a)(1): The employer did not provide a training program for each employee potentially exposed to fall hazards to enable each employee to recognize the hazards of falling and the procedures to be followed in order to minimize these hazards:  At the residential construction site located at 16440 Garnett in Overland Park, Kansas:  Employees engaged in stucco installation activities were exposed to fall hazards of up to 20 feet.  The employer had not provided exposed employees with fall protection training.