OSHA Inspection: NEW AGE CONSTRUCTION, INC.

Issued

Jun 1, 2017

Abate by

Jun 13, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,259 · Current $1,648 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:    (a) On or about 3/20/2017 - 5 Ventura Avenue, Homewood, AL, employees working on fabricated frame scaffolding at a height of approximately 7.5 feet were not protected from bricks falling onto them from the above work platform at a height of approximately 13.5 feet.

Issued

Jun 1, 2017

Abate by

Jun 13, 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:  (a) On or about 3/20/2017 - 5 Ventura Avenue, Homewood, AL, employees working on fabricated frame scaffolding at a height of approximately 7.5 feet were not protected from bricks falling onto them from the above work platform at a height of approximately 13.5 feet.

Issued

Jun 1, 2017

Abate by

Jun 13, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $1,900 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1)(i): Each platform unit (e.g., scaffold plank, fabricated plank, fabricated deck, or fabricated platform) was not installed so that the space between adjacent units and the space between the platform and the uprights were no more than 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide, except where the employer can demonstrate that a wider space is necessary:    (a) On or about 3/20/2017 - 5 Ventura Avenue, Homewood, AL, employees were working from side and front fabricated frame scaffolding two and three bucks high that was no fully planked exposing employees to falls between approximately 11 and 20 feet.

Issued

Jun 1, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,259 · Current $1,628 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(3): Supported scaffold poles, legs, post, frames, and/or uprights were not plumb and braced to prevent swaying and displacement:    (a) On or about 3/20/2017 - 5 Ventura Avenue, Homewood, AL, fabricated frame scaffolding was not erected with all required cross bracing resulting in the scaffold being as much as 2.4 degrees off center exposing employees to falls of approximately 11 feet.

Issued

Jun 1, 2017

Abate by

Jun 13, 2017

Penalty

Initial $2,716 · Current $1,358 Reduced

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) On or about 3/20/2017 - 5 Ventura Avenue, Homewood, AL, fabricated frame scaffolding two and three bucks high on both the side and front of the house did not have ladder access exposing the employees to falls between approximately 11 and 20 feet.

Issued

Jun 1, 2017

Abate by

Jun 13, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $1,900 Reduced

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) On or about 3/20/2017 - 5 Ventura Avenue, Homewood, AL, employees working from fabricated frame scaffolding three bucks high on the front of the house were not protected from falls between approximately 13 and 20 feet.

Issued

Jun 1, 2017

Abate by

Jun 13, 2017

Penalty

Initial $2,716 · Current $1,358 Reduced

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) On or about 3/20/2017 - 5 Ventura Avenue, Homewood, AL, the competent person had not trained the employees prior to working on fabricated frame scaffolding at heights between approximately 7.5 and 20 feet.

Issued

Jun 1, 2017

Abate by

Jun 13, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(b): The employer did not have each employee 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) On or about 3/20/2017 - 5 Ventura Avenue, Homewood, AL, the competent person had not trained the employees who assisted with the building of the fabricated frame scaffold prior to them assisting in erecting the scaffolding at heights between approximately 7.5 and 20 feet.

Issued

Jun 1, 2017

Abate by

Jul 6, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): Employer had not developed or implemented a written hazard communication program which at included the requirements outlined in 29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1)(i) and (e)(1)(ii): (Construction Reference: 1926.59)   (a) On or about 3/20/2017 - 5 Ventura Avenue, Homewood, AL, a hazard communication program had not been developed and implemented to train and educate employees on the dangers of chemicals such as, but not limited to, Portland cement, silica dust and hexavalent chromium.