OSHA Inspection: GOLD COAST PAVERS, INC.

Issued

Nov 9, 2017

Abate by

Nov 22, 2017

Penalty

Initial $2,173 · Current $2,173

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.95(a): Personal protective equipment, including personal protective equipment for eyes, face, head, and extremities, protective clothing, respiratory devices, and protective shields and barriers, was not provided, used, or maintained in a sanitary and reliable condition it was necessary by reason of hazards of processes or environment, chemical hazards, radiological hazards, or mechanical irritants encountered in a manner capable of causing injury or impairment in the function of any part of the body through absorption, inhalation, or physical contact.     Location:  a) On roof of the building:     On or about 05/10/17, employees were pouring concrete on the steel deck on the roof of the building, and were exposed to chemical burn from not being protected by personal protective equipment in a reliable condition.

Issued

Nov 9, 2017

Abate by

Nov 20, 2017

Penalty

Initial $2,716 · Current $2,716

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.     Location:  a) Supported scaffold on the roof at northwest side of the job site:     On or about 05/19/17, employees were working on the second tier platform of a 2-tier-high supported scaffold. The supported scaffold legs did not bear on base plates, mud sills or other adequate firm foundation.

Issued

Nov 9, 2017

Abate by

Nov 20, 2017

Penalty

Initial $2,716 · Current $2,716

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.    Location:  a) Supported scaffold on the roof at northwest side of the job site:    On or about 05/19/17, employees climbed the crossbraces as a mean of access to the second tier platform of a 2-tier-high supported scaffold.

Issued

Nov 9, 2017

Abate by

Nov 16, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $3,803

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.    Location: a) Supported scaffold on the roof at northwest side of the job site    On or about 05/19/17, a supported scaffold was not erected under the supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection. Employees were exposed to fall hazards due to deficiencies with the scaffold such as but not limited to: missing base plates, not leveled, mounted on unstable objects, no safe means of access to the scaffold platform, not protected from falls by use of personal fall arrest systems or guardrail systems.

Issued

Nov 9, 2017

Abate by

Nov 16, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $3,803

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(vii): Each employee on a scaffold, not otherwise specified in paragraphs (g)(1)(i) through (g)(1)(vi) of this section, more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above lower level was not protected from falls by the use of personal fall arrest systems or guardrail systems meeting the requirements of paragraph (g)(4) of this section.     Location:  a) Supported scaffold on the roof at northwest side of the job site:     On or about 05/19/17, employees were working on the second tier platform of a 2-tier-high supported scaffold, and were exposed to falling approximately 36.5 feet to the lower level.

Issued

Nov 9, 2017

Abate by

Nov 20, 2017

Penalty

Initial $2,716 · Current $2,716

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.701(b): All protruding reinforcing steel, onto and/or into which employees could fall or come against, was not guarded to eliminate the hazard of impalement    Location:  a) On roof of the building:    On or about 05/10/17, employees were pouring concrete on the steel deck on the roof of the building, and were exposed impalement hazard by unprotected rebars.

Issued

Nov 9, 2017

Abate by

Nov 16, 2017

Penalty

Initial $25,350 · Current $25,350

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:  a) At the worksite, 134 West Houston Street, New York, N.Y. 10012; On roof of the building:    On or about 05/10/17, employees were pouring concrete on the roof of the building, and were exposed to falling approximately 9.5 feet to the eighth floor and falling approximately 28.5 feet to the sixth floor. Employees were not protected by the use of guardrails, safety nets, or personal fall arrest systems.