OSHA Inspection: CARLOS FERNANDEZ

Issued

Feb 10, 2017

Abate by

Mar 9, 2017

Penalty

Initial $2,716 · Current $1,630 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:  Employees of Carlos Fernandez were exposed to struck by hazards in that the employer did not insure use of protective helmets.

Issued

Feb 10, 2017

Abate by

Mar 9, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $2,282 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(a)(6): Scaffolds were not designed by a qualified person:  Employees of Carlos Fernandez were exposed to caught in and struck by hazards in that the employer did not properly erect the scaffold.

Issued

Feb 10, 2017

Abate by

Mar 9, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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)  Employees of Carlos Fernandez were exposed to fall hazards in that the employer failed to ensure that the scaffolding was fully decked.

Issued

Feb 10, 2017

Abate by

Mar 9, 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:  Employees of Carlos Fernandez were exposed to caught-in and fall hazards in that the employer failed to use base plates and mud sills for the erected scaffold.

Issued

Feb 10, 2017

Abate by

Mar 9, 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.  Employees of Carlos Fernandez were exposed to fall hazards in that the employer failed to ensure that employees had a ladder or other means of access to ascend and descend the scaffold.

Issued

Feb 10, 2017

Abate by

Mar 9, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(9)(iv): Cross braces on tubular welded frame scaffolds were used as a means of access or egress.  Employees of Carlos Fernandez working on tubular welded frame scaffolds were exposed to fall hazards because they were not provided a means of access or egress.

Issued

Feb 10, 2017

Abate by

Mar 9, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(3): Scaffolds and scaffold components were not inspected for visible defects by a competent person before each work shift, and after any occurrence which could affect a scaffold's structural integrity:   Employees, of Carlos Fernandez, performing plaster work from a welded frame scaffold structure that had not been inspected daily were exposed to fall and struck-by hazards of over 10 ft. to the concrete below.

Issued

Feb 10, 2017

Abate by

Mar 9, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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.  Employees of Carlos Fernandez, were working from a scaffold structure that had not been erected under the supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection and were exposed to a fall of over 10 feet to the concrete below.

Issued

Feb 10, 2017

Abate by

Mar 9, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:  Employees, of Carlos Fernandez, engaged in plaster operations from the top level of a scaffold were not protected from falls, in excess of ten feet, by the use of a personal fall arrest system or guardrail system.

Issued

Feb 10, 2017

Abate by

Mar 9, 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:  Employees of Carlos Fernandez performing plaster activities from the upper levels of a tubular welded frame scaffold structure that did not have guardrails were exposed to a fall of over 10 ft. to the concrete below.

Issued

Feb 10, 2017

Abate by

Mar 9, 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.  Employees of Carlos Fernandez working underneath and/or around a scaffold structure that did not have toe boards were exposed to struck-by hazards from falling tools from a height of over 10 feet.