OSHA Inspection: RAMIRO SUAREZ

Issued

May 30, 2017

Abate by

Jun 23, 2017

Penalty

Initial $1,630 · Current $1,630

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): The employer did not develop, implement, and/or maintain at the workplace a written hazard communication program which describes how the criteria specified in 29 CFR 1910.1200(f), (g), and (h) will be met.  a). At the worksite - On or about and times prior to February 16, 2017, the employer did not develop and implement a written hazard communication program for employees that used hazardous chemicals such as, but not limited to Argos Masonry Cement, thus exposing employees to chemical hazards.

Issued

May 30, 2017

Abate by

Jun 23, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8): The employer did not maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical, and did not ensure that they were readily accessible during each work shift to employees when they were in their work area(s):  a). At the worksite - On or about and times prior to February 16, 2017, the employer did not have safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical used to include, but not limited to Argos Masonry Cement, thus exposing employees to chemical hazards.

Issued

May 30, 2017

Abate by

Jun 23, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1): Employees were not provided effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment and whenever a new hazard that the employees had not been previously trained about was introduced into their work area: (Construction Reference: 1926.59).  a). At the worksite - On or about and times prior to February 16, 2017, the employer did not provide chemical hazard training to employees that used hazardous chemicals to include, but not limited to Argos Masonry Cement, thus exposing employees to chemical hazards.

Issued

May 30, 2017

Penalty

Initial $1,630 · Current $1,630

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): The employer did not ensure that each affected employee used appropriate eye or face protection when exposed to eye or face hazards from flying particles, molten metal, liquid chemicals, acids or caustic liquids, chemical gases or vapors, or potentially injurious light radiation.  a). At the worksite - On or about and times prior to February 16, 2017, eye protection was not worn by employees handling Argos Masonry Cement, thus exposing employees to an eye hazard.

Issued

May 30, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $3,803

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds were not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports as specified in paragraphs 1926.451(b)(1)(i)-(ii).  a). At the worksite - On or about February 16, 2017, the second level of a fabricated frame scaffold was not fully planked or decked, thus exposing employees to a fall hazard.

Issued

May 30, 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 and mud sills or other adequate firm foundation.  a). At the worksite - On or about and times prior to February 16, 2017, the end frame legs on a fabricated frame scaffold were not supported on base plates, thus exposing employees to a fall hazard.

Issued

May 30, 2017

Abate by

Jun 23, 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:  a). At the worksite - On or about February 16, 2017, a fabricated frame scaffold was not erected under the supervision of a competent person, thus exposing employees to fall and struck-by hazards.

Issued

May 30, 2017

Abate by

Jun 23, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(b): The employer did not have each employee who was involved in erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, maintaining, or inspecting a scaffold trained by a competent person to recognize any hazards associated with the work in question.  a). At the worksite - On or about and times prior to February 16, 2017, employees engaged in the erection of a fabricated frame scaffold was not provided with training by a competent person, thus exposing employees to fall and struck-by hazards.

Issued

May 30, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $3,803

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.  a). At the worksite - On or about and times prior to February 16, 2017, a fabricated frame scaffold was accessed by climbing the end frames, thus exposing employees to a fall hazard.

Issued

May 30, 2017

Abate by

Jun 23, 2017

Penalty

Initial $2,716 · Current $2,716

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.  a). At the worksite - On or about February 16, 2017, employees worked from the second level of a fabricated frame scaffold without a fall protection system in place, thus exposing employees to a fall hazard.

Issued

May 30, 2017

Abate by

Jun 23, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $3,803

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(1): Each employee on a scaffold was not wearing hardhats and 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.  a). At the worksite - On or about February 16, 2017, employees working from a fabricated frame scaffold did not wear hardhats, thus exposing employees to a struck-by hazard.  b). At the worksite - On or about February 16, 2017, a fabricated frame scaffold was not equipped with falling object protection to prevent materials such as clay bricks and masonry mix from falling to lower levels, thus exposing employees struck-by hazards.

Issued

May 30, 2017

Abate by

Jun 23, 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.  a). At the worksite - On or about and times prior to February 16, 2017, the employer did not provide training to employees who worked from a fabricated frame scaffold in the recognition of hazards and the procedures in how to control or minimize those hazards, thus exposing employees to fall and struck-by hazards.