OSHA Inspection: ACUTE TUCKPOINTING & CONSTRUCTION

Issued

Sep 13, 2016

Abate by

Sep 19, 2016

Penalty

Initial $3,207 · Current $1,604 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): Employees were not provided with eye and face protection equipment when machines or operations present potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents:    a/  At the job site, employee(s) were not provided with appropriate safety glasses while using hand-held grinders to remove mortar from in-between courses of brick.

Issued

Sep 13, 2016

Abate by

Sep 19, 2016

Penalty

Initial $3,741 · Current $1,871 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1): When scaffold platforms were more than two (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:  a/  At the job site, safe access and/or egress belonging to a ladder-jack scaffold was not provided.  Specifically, the two brackets supporting the walking/working platform were facing away from the exterior wall of the building by approximately two feet. Employee(s) were required to kneel down on the walking/working platform then extend their leg over the bracket and place a foot onto the ladder rung.  A fall distance of approximately 22 feet existed.

Issued

Sep 13, 2016

Abate by

Sep 19, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(i): Each employee on a boatswains' chair, catenary scaffold, float scaffold, needle beam scaffold, or ladder jack scaffold was not protected by a personal fall arrest system (PFAS):  a/  At the job site, employee(s) working from a ladder-jack scaffold were not provided with a PFAS.  The walking/working platform was approximately 22 feet above the sidewalk below.

Issued

Sep 13, 2016

Abate by

Sep 19, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(k)(1): Platforms on a ladder-jack scaffold exceeded a height of 20 feet (6.1 m):  a/  At the job site, the walking/working platform supported by a ladder-jack scaffold was approximately 22 feet above the concrete sidewalk.

Issued

Sep 13, 2016

Abate by

Sep 19, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(7): Scaffolds were not erected, moved, dismantled, or altered only under the supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection, moving, dismantling or alteration:  At the job site, the employer did not designate a competent person to erect and use a ladder-jack scaffold.  The following hazards/violations were noted on 09/01/16:  a/  The lack of safe access and egress.  b/  The lack of a personal fall arrest system.  c/  The working platform exceeded 20 feet by two feet.

Issued

Sep 13, 2016

Abate by

Sep 19, 2016

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(a)(1):  The employer did not have each employee who performs 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:  At the job site, exposed employee(s) were unable to recognize the following hazards associated with a ladder-jack scaffold:  a/  The lack of safe access and egress.  b/  The lack of a personal fall arrest system.  c/  The working platform exceeded 20 feet by two feet.