OSHA Inspection: W.R. NEWMAN & ASSOCIATES, INCORPORATED

Issued

Jul 27, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,680 Reduced

General-duty citation text

OSH ACT of 1970 Section (5)(a)(1): The employer did not furnish employment and a place of employment which were free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees in that employees were exposed to falling from a fiberglass extension ladder while attempting to access/egress steel beams or elevated scaffold planks.    (a) 271 Suedberg Road, Pine Grove, PA - An unsecured twenty-foot (20') fiberglass extension ladder was placed against a concrete wall and was used by employees for access/egress to a steel beam (eighteen-foot, eight-inches - 18'8" - above ground level) and for access/egress to three (3) elevated aluminum scaffold planks (twelve-foot, eight-inches - 12'8" - above ground level) which created side loads that could destabilize and/or shift the extension ladder exposing the employees to a fall hazard, as observed on or about July 8, 2016.

Issued

Jul 27, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1): Where portable ladders were used for access to an upper landing surface and the ladder's length allows, the ladder side rails did not extend at least 3 feet (.9 m) above the upper landing surface being accessed.  (a) West wall, 271 Suedberg Road, Pine Grove, PA - An unsecured twenty four-foot (24') aluminum extension ladder, with side rails that extended approximately one-foot (1') above the roof edge (sixteen-foot, eight-inches - 16'8") - above ground level), was used for roof access/egress exposing employees to a fall hazard, as observed on or about July 8, 2016.

Issued

Jul 27, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,800 · Current $1,680 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2)(v): Fork-lifts were used to support scaffold platforms while the entire platform was not attached to the fork and the fork-lift was moved horizontally while the platform was occupied.    a) Throughout the site, 271 Suedberg Road, Pine Grove, PA - A Pettibone B-68 Extendo Rough Terrain Forklift traveled horizontally a distance of approximately two hundred-foot (~200') carrying an occupied an in-house fabricated scaffold platform exposing employees to struck-by and/or fall hazards, as observed on or about July 8, 2016.

Issued

Jul 27, 2016

Penalty

Initial $4,200 · Current $2,520 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.    (a) 271 Suedberg Road, Pine Grove, PA - Three (3) aluminum scaffold planks attached to the forks of a JCB Telescopic Handler Model 509 were elevated twelve-foot, eight-inches (12'8") above ground level were not equipped with guardrail systems, safety net systems, or personal fall arrest systems exposing employees to a fall hazard, as observed on or about July 8, 2016.

Issued

Jul 27, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.760(a)(1): Each employee engaged in a steel erection activity who is on a walking/working surface with an unprotected side or edge more than 15 feet (4.6 m) above a lower level was not protected from fall hazards by guardrail systems, safety net systems, personal fall arrest systems, positioning device systems, or fall restraint systems.  (a) 271 Suedberg Road, Pine Grove, PA - Steel beams of a building that were eighteen-foot (18') above ground level were used as a walking/working surface and lacked guardrails systems, safety net systems, personal fall arrest systems, positioning device systems, and fall restraint systems exposing employees to a fall hazard, as observed on or about July 8, 2016.