OSHA Inspection: SKI MASONRY, LLC

Issued

Oct 12, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,621 · Current $1,811 Reduced

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:     (a)  Jobsite:  On or about April 20, 2017, the one screw jack baseplate to the approximately 40 foot high tubular welded frame scaffold was partially off of it wood support.

Issued

Oct 12, 2017

Penalty

Initial $5,071 · Current $2,536 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) Jobsite:  On or about April 19 and 20, 2017, employees climbed cross bracing and or uprights to access the highest two sections of the tubular welded frame scaffolding.  The fall hazard to the employees ranged from about 27 feet to about 40 feet to the ground.

Issued

Oct 12, 2017

Penalty

Initial $5,071 · Current $2,536 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(i): Each employee on a boatswains' chair, catenary scaffold, float scaffold, needle beam scaffold, or ladder jack scaffold was not protected by a personal fall arrest system:     (a) Jobsite:  On or about April 20, 2017, an employee was working from a 29 foot high ladder jack scaffold and he was not protected from falling to the ground.

Issued

Oct 12, 2017

Penalty

Initial $5,071 · Current $2,536 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(k)(1): Ladder jack scaffold platforms exceeded a height of 20 feet:    (a) Jobsite:  On or about April 20, 2017, an employee was working from a ladder jack scaffold and its pic was 29 feet above the ground.

Issued

Oct 12, 2017

Abate by

Oct 24, 2017

Penalty

Initial $5,071 · Current $2,536 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.503(a)(1): The employer did not provide a training program for each employee potentially exposed to fall hazards to enable each employee to recognize the hazards of falling and the procedures to be followed in order to minimize these hazards:    (a)  Jobsite:  On or about April 20, 2017, the employer did not provide a training program for each employee that was exposed to a fall hazard.  Three employees were working from a tubular welded frame scaffolding and the roof and they were exposed to fall hazards of up to about 42 feet to the ground.

Issued

Oct 12, 2017

Penalty

Initial $126,749 · Current $63,375 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(6): Scaffolds were erected, used, dismantled, altered, or moved such that they, or any conductive material handled on them, could have come closer than the minimum distances established for specific voltages as set forth in the table in subparagraph (f)(6):     (a)  Jobsite:  On or about April 18 and 19, 2017, employees and the owner were erecting the tubular welded frame scaffolding that was about 15 inches from 120 v AC -240 v AC overhead electrical lines.  This tubular welded frame scaffold was also only 4 1/2 feet from 23 KV phase to phase overhead electrical lines (13.2 KV phase to ground).  None of these overhead electrical lines were insulated.  In addition, the foreman and a laborer were working (removing and replacing the chimney mortar cap) from the very top of this tubular welded frame scaffold.  When they were doing this they were both about 1 1/2 to 2 feet from the 23 kv (phase to phase, 13.2 kv phase to ground) energized overhead electric lines.      (b)  Jobsite:  On or about April 20, 2017, employees were working from tubular welded frame scaffolding that was 15 inches from 120 vAC - 240 vAC overhead electrical lines.   In addition, at least one employee (deceased) was working at the top of the scaffold and the employee was within 4 1/2 feet of the overhead energized, and not insulated 23 KV phase to phase (13.2 KV phase to ground).

Issued

Oct 12, 2017

Penalty

Initial $50,700 · Current $25,350 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:     (a) Jobsite:  On or about April 19 and 20, 2017, employees were not protected from falling from a tubular welded frame scaffold.  The fall hazard was up to approximately 42 feet to the ground.