OSHA Inspection: BREND RENOVATION CORP

Issued

2017-07-28 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-08-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3984.00 · Current $2390.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(d)(1)(iii): Referencing CFR 1926.103: 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:    a)  At the jobsite, on or about 2/16/17:  Employees ground out brick joints in preparation for pointing where the employer did not identify and evaluate respiratory hazards associated with Silica.

Issued

2017-07-28 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-08-07 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $5577.00 · Current $3346.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(a)(6): Scaffolds were not constructed in accordance with the design by a qualified person:    a)  At the jobsite, on or about 2/16/17:  Employees used fall protection lifelines that were part of an engineered two-point suspended scaffold design, where the deployment of vertical lifelines in that design was depicted inconsistently and depicted without significant structural elements as part of that design.  The qualified persons who constructed this system did so without clear direction with regard to the fall protection elements.