OSHA Inspection: TYRONE MASONRY, INC.

Issued

May 4, 2017

Abate by

Jun 21, 2017

Penalty

Initial $2,173 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): Employers shall develop, implement, and maintain at each workplace, a written hazard communication program which at least describes how the criteria specified in paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) of this section for labels and other forms of warning, safety data sheets, and employee information and training will be met, and which also includes the following:    1) Jobsite: The employer did not have a written hazardous communications program. Employees were tasked to build a brick veneer on the outside of a residential building; thus exposing them to hazardous chemicals such as but not limited to:  -Limestone and Tricalcium Silicate contained in Keystone rainbow bond colored masonry cement.  -etc  Condition observed on or about 13 JAN 2017

Issued

May 4, 2017

Abate by

Jun 21, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(1): Chemical manufacturers and importers shall obtain or develop a safety data sheet for each hazardous chemical they produce or import. Employers shall have a safety data sheet in the workplace for each hazardous chemical which they use.    1) Jobsite: The employer did not ensure that a Safety Data Sheet (SDS) was readily available for each hazardous chemical or products used. The employer did not have the SDS's for but not limited to the Keystone Rainbow bond colored masonry cement which contains limestone etc. Condition observed on or around 13 Jan 2017.

Issued

May 4, 2017

Abate by

Jun 21, 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:     1) Jobsite: Employees were not provided information/training on the handling of hazardous chemicals used at the jobsite. Employees work with chemicals such as but not limited to the following:    -Limestone and Tricalcium Silicate contained in Keystone rainbow bond colored masonry cement.  -etc.  Condition was noted on or about 13 JAN 2017

Issued

May 4, 2017

Abate by

May 10, 2017

Penalty

Initial $2,173 · Current $0 Reduced

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.    1) Jobsite: Employees working with a cordless  power drill were not giving proper eye protection; thus exposing them to various flying particle hazards. Condition was observed on or about 13 FEB 2017.

Issued

May 4, 2017

Abate by

May 10, 2017

Penalty

Initial $2,173 · Current $1,630 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames, and uprights shall bear on base plates and mud sills or other adequate firm foundation.    1) Jobsite: The Employer did not ensure that the scaffold legs were erected on firm foundation; thus exposing employees to fall hazards. Condition was observed on or about 13 JAN 2017

Issued

May 4, 2017

Abate by

Jun 21, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.21(b)(2): The employer shall instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his work environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury.  1) Jobsite: Employees were working on various levels of a scaffold without fall protection, toe boards and proper PPE; thus exposing employees to struck by fall hazards, etc. Condition observed on or about 13 JAN 2017.

Issued

May 4, 2017

Abate by

May 10, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(3): Scaffolds and scaffold components shall be inspected for visible defects by a competent person before each work shift, and after any occurrence which could affect a scaffold's structural integrity.  1) Jobsite: Employees were working on and around a scaffold without a competent person on site to inspect the scaffold for missing components. Condition was observed on or about 13 JAN 2017  2) Jobsite: Employees were using different non-scaffold components such as dunnage and bricks to keep an outrigger supported; thus exposing the employees to fall hazards. Condition was observed on or about 13 JAN 2017

Issued

May 4, 2017

Abate by

May 10, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,259 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds shall be fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports as follows:    1) Jobsite: Employees were working on various levels of a scaffold that were not fully planked; thus exposing the employees to trip and fall hazards. Condition was observed on or about 13 JAN 2017.

Issued

May 4, 2017

Abate by

May 10, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $2,852 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1): When scaffold platforms are 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 another scaffold, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface shall be used. Crossbraces shall not be used as a means of access.    1) Jobsite: The employer did not a have a safe means to access the scaffold for his employees. Employees had to access the scaffold by climbing on the outside of the scaffold; thus exposing them to fall hazards. Condition was observed on or about 13 JAN 2017.

Issued

May 4, 2017

Abate by

May 16, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $2,852 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level.    1) Jobsite: The employer did not ensure that employees were protected from falls while working on a scaffold at heights greater than 10 feet without the use of a fall protection system. Condition was observed on or about 13 JAN 2017

Issued

May 4, 2017

Abate by

May 16, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(a): The employer shall have each employee who performs 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.  1) Jobsite: Employer did not provide training that allowed employees to recognize, evaluate and mitigate hazards associated with scaffolds. Condition was observed on or about 13 JAN 2017.