OSHA Inspection: STEFANO'S LANDSCAPING, DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION, INC.

Issued

2017-01-18 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-02-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $8873.00 · Current $5000.00 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 was free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees in that employees were exposed to struck by hazards by motor vehicles when loading trailers in the roadway without high visibility safety vests and/or a warning system to alert drivers of employees working in the roadway.    On or about 10/3/16, the employer did not require employees to wear high visibility safety vests and did not ensure safety cones were placed in the roadway to alert oncoming traffic, while employees load and unload trailers in the roadway.

Issued

2017-01-18 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-03-07 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $5070.00 · Current $2000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(1): A written respiratory protection program that included the provisions in 29 CFR 1910.134(c)(1)(i) - (ix) with worksite specific procedures was not established and implemented for required respirator use:    Location: Jobsites    On or about 10/12/16, the employer did not develop the elements of a written respiratory protection program with worksite specific procedures for the employees required to wear 3M 6211 half face respirators while saw cutting concrete.

Issued

2017-01-18 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-03-07 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $5070.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(d)(1)(iii): The employer did not identify and evaluate the respiratory hazard(s) in the workplace; including a reasonable estimate of employee exposures to respiratory hazards and identification of the contaminant's chemical state and physical form:    Location: Jobsites    On or about 10/12/16, the employer did not perform a hazard evaluation of employees that that were required to wear 3M 6211 half face respirators while saw cutting concrete.

Issued

2017-01-18 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-03-07 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $5070.00 · Current $2000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(e)(1): The employer did not provide a medical evaluation to determine the employee's ability to use a respirator, before the employee was fit tested or required to use the respirator in the workplace:    Location: Jobsites    On or about 10/12/16, the employer did not medically evaluate employees that were required to wear 3M 6211 half face respirators while saw cutting concrete.

Issued

2017-01-18 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-03-07 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(f)(1): The employer did not ensure that employee(s) required to use a tight-fitting facepiece respirator passed the appropriate qualitative fit test (QLFT) or quantitative fit test (QNFT):  Location: Jobsites  On or about 10/12/16, the employer did not fit test employees that were required to wear 3M 6211 half face respirators while saw cutting concrete.

Issued

2017-01-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $700.00 · Current $300.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1904.29(b)(3): Each recordable injury or illness on the OSHA 300 Log and 301 Incident Report was not recorded within seven (7) calendar days of receiving information that a recordable injury or illness has occurred.    Location: 179 Howard Street, Melrose, MA    On or about 10/12/16, the employer did not record the following workplace fatality on the OSHA Form 300 or equivalent for calendar year 2016.    On or about 10/3/16, an employee was struck and killed by a car, while securing a tailgate to a trailer in the roadway.

Issued

2017-01-18 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3500.00 · Current $1400.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1904.39(a)(1): The employer did not report within 8-hours the death of an employee resulting from a work-related incident:    Location: 179 Howard Street, Melrose, MA    On or about 10/3/16, the employer did not report a work related injury resulting in death within 8-hours.

Issued

2017-01-18 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-03-07 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $711.00 · Current $300.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.132(d)(2): The employer did not verify, through a written certification, the identity of the workplace evaluated, the person certifying that the evaluation had been performed, and the date the hazard assessment was done:    On or about 10/12/16, the employer did not assess and certify the workplace of hazards through a written hazard assessment for the employees that wear half face respirators while perform masonry work and for the employees that wear safety glasses while performing landscaping work.