OSHA Inspection: SOUTHTECH CONSTRUCTION GROUP, LLC

Issued

Feb 8, 2017

Abate by

Feb 28, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,259 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns, were not protected by protective helmets:  The employer did not provide employees working at a multiemployer worksite with overhead hazards any type of head protection. Exposing employees to struck by hazards.

Issued

Feb 8, 2017

Abate by

Feb 28, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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.  Employees working with masonry materials and performing construction tasks at a multiemployer construction site were not provided with eye protection by the employer. Exposing employees to struck by hazards and or eye injuries.

Issued

Feb 8, 2017

Abate by

Feb 28, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Platform(s) on all working levels of scaffolds, were not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and guardrail supports such that the space between adjacent units, and the space between the platform and the uprights.  The levels of the scaffold system that  were being used by employees was not fully planked, exposing employees to fall hazards.

Issued

Feb 8, 2017

Abate by

Feb 28, 2017

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:  The scaffold system that was being used by employees at the worksite was not placed on a firm foundation. The outer legs were sitting on an incline. Exposing employees to fall or struck by hazards.

Issued

Feb 8, 2017

Abate by

Feb 28, 2017

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.  The scaffold system at the worksite did not have a ladder system or other type of approved method of access. Exposing employees to fall hazards.

Issued

Feb 8, 2017

Abate by

Feb 28, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(4)(i): Guardrail systems were not installed along all open sides and ends of platforms before being released for use by employees other than erection/dismantling crews:  The scaffold system being used by employees at the worksite did not have all of its open sides at the level that employees were working closed with a railing system. exposing employees to fall hazards.

Issued

Feb 8, 2017

Abate by

Feb 28, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(1): Each employee on a scaffold was not provided with additional protection from falling hand tools, debris, and other small objects through the installation of toeboards, screens, guardrail systems, or through the erection of debris nets, catch platforms, or canopy structures that contain or deflect the falling objects.  For falling objects too large, heavy or massive to be contained or deflected, the employer did not place and secure such potential falling objects away from the edge of the surface from which they could fall.   The scaffolding system at the worksite being used by employees did not have toe boards in place or any other means of retention to prevent objects from falling off the scaffold system and onto employees.

Issued

Feb 8, 2017

Abate by

Feb 28, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(a): The employer did not have each employee who performed 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.  Employees working on the scaffold system provided by, and in use by the employer were not trained in scaffold use, hazards or safety. Exposing employees to fall hazards.