OSHA Inspection: KTC DESIGN GROUP INC.

Issued

Sep 27, 2017

Abate by

Oct 10, 2017

Penalty

Initial $1,630 · Current $1,075 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.25(a): During the course of construction, alteration, or repairs,  debris was not kept cleared from work areas, passageways, and stairs, in and around buildings or other structures:    Location:      750 52nd Street, Brooklyn, NY.    a)               Scrap lumber, rebar and other construction debris was in the work area, passageways and in the areas where employees were working and walking. On or about 05/11/2017.

Issued

Sep 27, 2017

Abate by

Oct 10, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $2,510 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.    Location:  750 52nd Street, Brooklyn, NY.    Masons were working on the tubular welded frame scaffold that was not fully planked. On or about 05/11/2017.

Issued

Sep 27, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $2,510 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(1): Each employee on a walking/working surface with an unprotected side or edge which was 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above a lower level was not protected from falling by the use of guardrail systems, safety net systems, or personal fall arrest systems.    Location:    750 52nd Street, Brooklyn, NY.     a)    Employees were working nearing and around platform floor opening on the second floor platform without using any form of fall protection. On or about 05/11/2017.

Issued

Sep 27, 2017

Penalty

Initial $1,630 · Current $1,075 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.701(b): Reinforcing steel. All protruding reinforcing steel, onto and into which employees could fall, shall be guarded to eliminate the hazard of impalement.      Location:    750 52nd Street, Brooklyn, NY.    a)        Protruding steel around the CMU was left exposed and not capped. Employees were exposed to impalement or lacerations. On or about 05/11/2017.

Issued

Sep 27, 2017

Abate by

Oct 10, 2017

Penalty

Initial $2,173 · Current $1,815 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.    Location: 750 52nd Street, Brooklyn, NY    a)     Masons used tubular welded frame scaffold that was not erected on base plates. On or about 05/11/2017.

Issued

Sep 27, 2017

Abate by

Oct 10, 2017

Penalty

Initial $2,716 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(2): Tubular welded frames and panels were not braced by cross, horizontal, or diagonal braces, or combination thereof, which would have secured vertical members together laterally:    Location:    750 52nd Street, Brooklyn.      a)             Mason used the tubular welded frames scaffold to install CMU blocks with no cross braces installed. On or about 05/11/2017.

Issued

Sep 27, 2017

Penalty

Initial $2,716 · Current $1,815 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(4): Ladders were used for purposes other than the purposes for which they were designed:    Location:  750 52nd Street, Brooklyn, NY.    a)   A red 6 Ft A-Frame ladder was used as a lean against extension ladder to access a work area.  On or about 05/11/2017.

Issued

Sep 27, 2017

Penalty

Initial $2,173 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(16): Portable ladders with structural defects were not immediately marked " Defective, Do not Use" and withdrawn from service:    Location: 750 52nd Street, Brooklyn, NY.     a) The aluminium extension ladder used to access the second floor platform areas had a broken ladder rung.  On or about 5/11/2017.