OSHA Inspection: DEITY GLASS INC.

Issued

2017-08-08 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3803.00 · Current $2282.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees were not protected by protective helmets while working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or from falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns:    (a) Rear Building Exterior: Employees working without hardhats were exposed to a struck by hazard from window glass being passed up above their heads, on or about 5/31/2017.

Issued

2017-08-08 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3803.00 · Current $2282.00 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)  a) Rear Building Exterior: Employees were observed working on a pipe scaffold that was not fully decked, exposing employees to a 19 feet fall on or about, 5/31/2017.

Issued

2017-08-08 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3803.00 · Current $2282.00 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.  a) Rear Building Exterior: Employees were using a mason tubular welded pipe scaffold as a ladder to access windows exposing employees to a fall on or about 5/31/2017.

Issued

2017-08-08 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3803.00 · Current $2282.00 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) Rear Building Exterior: Employees were exposed to Fall Hazards while replacing window glass from a tubular welded frame scaffold about 19 feet from the lower level, on or about 5/31/2017.

Issued

2017-08-08 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2173.00 · Current $1304.00 Reduced

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.    a) Rear Building Exterior: The pipe scaffold was erected without the supervision of a competent person on or about 5/31/2017.

Issued

2017-08-08 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-10-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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) Rear Building Exterior: The employer did not ensure that employees who are in engaged in pipe scaffold work at an elevated height of 19 feet above the level below, were included in a training program to recognize fall hazards, thus exposing employees to a fall hazard, on or about 5/31/2017.