OSHA Inspection: RIDGE RUNNER CONSTRUCTION, LLC

Issued

May 23, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $1,500 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): The employer shall ensure that each affected employee uses 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.      Location: 131 Lynnfield Street, Peabody, MA  On or about December 9, 2016, the employer failed to ensure that eye and face protection equipment was used when employees were operating pneumatic nail guns.

Issued

May 23, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $1,500 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13): "Residential construction." Each employee engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels was not protected by guardrail systems, safety net system, or personal fall arrest system, nor were employee(s) provided with an alternative fall protection measure under another provision of paragraph 1926.501(b):    Location: 131 Lynnfield Street, Peabody, MA  On or about December 9, 2016, employers were not protected from falling while working from a roof greater than nineteen feet above a lower level.

Issued

May 23, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $1,500 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.          Location: 131 Lynnfield Street, Peabody, MA  On or about December 9, 2016, proper access to a ladder jack scaffold platform was not provided.

Issued

May 23, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:      Location: 131 Lynnfield Street, Peabody, MA  On or about December 9, 2016, an employee utilizing a ladder jack scaffold platform was not protected from falling while working at a height greater than nineteen feet above the lower level.

Issued

May 23, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $1,500 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1): Portable ladders were used for access to an upper landing surface and the ladder side rails did not extend at least 3 feet (.9 m) above the upper landing surface to which the ladder was used to gain access:      Location: 131 Lynnfield Street, Peabody, MA  On or about December 9, 2016, employees were not protected from falling while using a ladder that did not extend at least three feet above the landing surface to be accessed.