OSHA Inspection: ALVARO MASONRY LLC

Issued

2017-08-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-09-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2716.00 · Current $1900.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.178(l)(1)(i): The employer did not ensure that each powered industrial truck operator is competent to operate a powered industrial truck safely, as demonstrated by the successful completion of the training and evaluation specified in this paragraph (l):    JOBSITE:  The employer did not ensure through successful training and evaluation that the forklift operator of the Lull Rough Terrain forklift truck (PIT) was competent to operate the PIT safely at all times.

Issued

2017-08-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-09-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1630.00 · Current $1140.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): The employer did not develop, implement, and/or maintain at the workplace a written hazard communication program which describes how the criteria specified in paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) will be met: (Construction Reference: 1926.59):    JOBSITE:  The employer had not developed and implemented a written Hazard Communication program where employees were required to work with and handle hazardous chemicals, such as (but not limited to) Lehigh Type N Masonry cement.

Issued

2017-08-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-09-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8):  The employer did not ensure that Safety Data Sheets were readily accessible during each work shift to employees when they were in their work area(s): (Construction Reference: 1926.59):  JOBSITE:  The employer did not maintain Safety Data Sheets for hazardous chemicals, such as (but not limited to) Lehigh Type N Masonry cement for employees.

Issued

2017-08-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-09-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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: (Construction Reference: 1926.59)  JOBSITE:  The employees, required to work with and handle hazardous chemicals, such as (but not limited to) Lehigh Type N Masonry cement were not provided with training and information on the chemical hazard communications. .

Issued

2017-08-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-09-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2716.00 · Current $1900.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.303(b)(1): Grinding machines were not equipped with safety guards in conformance with the requirements of ANSI B7.1-1970, Safety Code for the Use, Care, and Protection of abrasive wheels, and paragraph (d) of this section.    JOBSITE:  The Makita portable grinder machine, used by employees was not equipped with a safety guard in conformance with the requirement of ANSI B7.1-1970.

Issued

2017-08-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-09-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2716.00 · Current $1900.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds was not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports as specified in paragraphs 1926.451(b)(1)(i)-(ii):    JOBSITE:  The 2nd tier working platform of a fabricated framed scaffold from which employees were performing overhand bricklaying was not fully planked or decked.

Issued

2017-08-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-09-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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:  JOBSITE:  The footings of the fabricated frame scaffold were not set on base plates, mud sills or other adequate firm foundation.

Issued

2017-08-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-09-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1630.00 · Current $1140.00 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.    JOBSITE:  The employees accessing the working platform of the fabricated frame scaffold through the window opening of a building were not provided with a ladder, ramp or other safe means of access.

Issued

2017-08-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-09-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(7): Scaffolds were not erected, moved, dismantled, or altered, by trained and experienced employees under the supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection, moving, dismantling or alteration:; Such activities were not performed only by experienced and trained employees selected for such work by the competent person.  JOBSITE:  The fabricated frame scaffold, from which employees were perform overhand bricklaying was not erected under the supervision and direction of a competent person.

Issued

2017-08-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-09-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3803.00 · Current $2720.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(vi): Each employee performing overhand bricklaying operations from a supported scaffold was not protected from falling from all open sides and ends of the scaffold (except at the side next to the wall being laid) by the use of a personal fall arrest system or guardrail system (with minimum 200 pound toprail capacity).    JOBSITE:  The employees, performing overhand bricklaying operation from the working platform of the fabricated frame scaffold were not protected from falling between 13 feet and 16feet 3 inches to the ground from all open sides and ends by the use of guardrail systems and/or personal fall arrest systems.

Issued

2017-08-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-09-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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.  JOBSITE:  The employees, performing overhand bricklaying operations from the working platform of the fabricated frame scaffold without fall protection at heights of 13 feet and 16 feet 3inches above the ground had not received training to recognize the hazards associated with the type of scaffold being used.

Issued

2017-08-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-09-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2716.00 · Current $1900.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.651(j)(2):  Employees shall be protected from excavated or other materials or equipment that could pose a hazard by falling or rolling into excavations. Protection shall be provided by placing and keeping such materials or equipment at least 2 feet (.61 m) from the edge of excavations, or by the use of retaining devices that are sufficient to prevent materials or equipment from falling or rolling into excavations, or by a combination of both if necessary.    JOBSITE:  The employer did not ensure that the excavated material was placed at least 2 feet from the edge of the excavation in which an employee was working.

Issued

2017-08-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-09-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2716.00 · Current $1900.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.651(k)(1): Daily inspections of excavations, the adjacent areas, and protective systems were not made by a competent person for evidence of a situation that could have resulted in possible cave-ins, indications of failure of protective systems or other hazardous conditions.:    JOBSITE:  Daily inspections of the excavations/trench, the adjacent area and protective system were not made by a competent person for evidence of a situation that could have resulted in cave-ins, a failure of  the protective system or other hazardous conditions.

Issued

2017-08-31 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-09-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2716.00 · Current $1900.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.652(a)(1):  Employees were not protected in an excavation from a cave-in by an adequate protective system designed in accordance with paragraph (b) and (c) of this section.    JOBSITE:  The employee, laying pipe in an excavation approximately 5 feet 2 inches deep was not protected from the hazard of cave-in by the use of appropriate cave-in protective systems/devices.