OSHA Inspection: MAJESTIC BUILDERS, LLC

Issued

Aug 4, 2017

Abate by

Aug 10, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $3,803

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) Jobsite - The employer did not ensure that each working level of a fabricated frame scaffold was fully planked or decked between the front uprights and guardrail supports, thus exposing an employee who was on a working level approximately 20 feet above a concrete sidewalk to a fall from elevation hazard.  The CSHO observed this condition on May 31, 2017.

Issued

Aug 4, 2017

Abate by

Aug 10, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $3,803

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(1): Supported scaffold with a height to base width (including outrigger supports, if used) ratio of more than four to one (4:1) was not restrained from tipping by guying, tying, bracing, or equivalent means, as set forth in subparagraphs (i) - (iii) of this paragraph.  a) Jobsite - The employer did not ensure that a fabricated frame scaffold was restrained from tipping by guying, tying, bracing, or equivalent means when the height to base ratio exceeded 4:1, thus exposing employees to a fall from elevation hazard.  The scaffold was approximately 27 feet high and 5 feet wide, thus the height to width ratio was 5.4:1.  The CSHO observed the condition on May 31, 2017.

Issued

Aug 4, 2017

Abate by

Aug 10, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $3,803

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2)(i): Footings shall be level, sound, rigid, and capable of supporting the loaded scaffold without settling or displacement.  a) Jobsite - The employer did not ensure that the footings of a fabricated frame scaffold were level, sound, rigid, and capable of supporting the loaded scaffold without settling or displacement, in that two baseplates did not fully rest upon the mudsills, thus exposing an employee to a fall from elevation hazard.  The CSHO observed this condition on May 31, 2017.

Issued

Aug 4, 2017

Abate by

Aug 10, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $3,803

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.   a) Jobsite - The employer did not provide a means of access from one level of the fabricated frame scaffold to another by use of ladders, stair towers, or other acceptable means.  An employee ascended and descended the scaffold platforms by climbing the scaffold frame, which did not have integrated access, thus exposing the employee to a fall from elevation hazard.  The CSHO observed this condition on May 31, 2017.

Issued

Aug 4, 2017

Abate by

Aug 10, 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.  a) Jobsite - The employer did not require an employee, who was working on the third level of a fabricated frame scaffold at a height of approximately 20.5 feet above the ground, to use any form of personal fall arrest system or guardrail system, thus exposing the employee to a fall from elevation hazard.  The CSHO observed this condition on May 31, 2017.