OSHA Inspection: ALACRAN JALISCO CONSTRUCTION, LLC

Issued

Sep 9, 2016

Abate by

Sep 19, 2016

Penalty

Initial $1,604 · Current $962 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): Eye and face protective equipment were not used when machines or operations presented potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents:    On or about August 8, 2016, at the job site an employee was observed not wearing safety glasses/face shield while using a powered dry-saw to cut bricks.  The employee was exposed to eye injury hazards.

Issued

Sep 9, 2016

Abate by

Sep 19, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,138 · Current $1,283 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):    On or about August 8, 2016, at the job site employees were observed working on a second level of a 3-tier scaffold which did not have the working level fully planked between the uprights.  The employees were exposed to fall hazard.

Issued

Sep 9, 2016

Abate by

Sep 19, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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 August 8, 2016, at the job site employees were observed working from a 3-tier scaffold.  The scaffolds legs were laid on soft ground without using mud sills.   Employees were exposed to fall hazards.

Issued

Sep 9, 2016

Abate by

Sep 19, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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 August 8, 2016, at the job site employees were observed scaling on the scaffolding frames as a means to access the scaffolds, no ladder was provided.  Employees were exposed fall hazard.

Issued

Sep 9, 2016

Abate by

Oct 3, 2016

Penalty

Initial $2,138 · Current $1,283 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:    On or about August 8, 2016, at the job site employees were observed working from a second level of a 3-tier scaffold which was built by unqualified employees and was not under supervision of a competent person.  Employees were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 24-ft to the ground.

Issued

Sep 9, 2016

Abate by

Sep 19, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:    On or about August 8, 2016, at the job site employees were observed working from second level of a 3-tier scaffold approximately 12 feet high.  The scaffold did not have guard rails provided and the employees were not wearing personal fall arrest harness.  Employees were exposed to fall hazards.