OSHA Inspection: EAST COAST FOUNDATION, LLC

Issued

2017-07-10 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-09-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3622.00 · Current $1811.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.21(b)(2): The employer did not instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his/her environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury:    a. Site- The employer did not provide employees with training in the recognition and avoidance of cave in hazards while working in or near unprotected excavations.

Issued

2017-07-10 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-09-01 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.    a. Site- The employer did not provide employees with training in the recognition and avoidance of fall and scaffold collapse hazards while working from or near form scaffolds.

Issued

2017-07-10 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-07-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3622.00 · Current $1811.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(2): Except as provided in paragraphs (b)(2)(i) and (b)(2)(ii) of this section, each scaffold platform and/or walkway was not at least 18 inches (46 cm) wide:    a. Site- Employees working from form scaffolding were not protected from a fall hazard where form scaffold platforms were only 11.25 inches wide.

Issued

2017-07-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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. Site- Employees working from form scaffolds were not protected from a fall hazard where ladders were not provided by the employer for scaffold access.

Issued

2017-07-10 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-07-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3622.00 · Current $1811.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(3): Scaffolds and scaffold components were not inspected for visible defects by a competent person before each work shift, and after any occurrence which could affect a scaffold's structural integrity:    a. Site- Employees working from form scaffolds were not protected from fall and collapse hazards where the employer did not have a competent person inspect the form scaffolding prior to each work shift.

Issued

2017-07-10 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-07-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(4): Part(s) of a scaffold that were damaged or weakened, such that the scaffold's strength was less than that required by paragraph (a) of this section, were not immediately repaired, replaced, braced to meet those provisions, nor removed from service until repaired.    a. Site- Employees working from form scaffolding were not protected from fall and scaffold collapse hazards where the employer did not remove damaged scaffold planking from service.

Issued

2017-07-10 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-07-14 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.    a. Site- Employees working from form scaffolds were not protected from fall and collapse hazards where the employer did not have a competent person direct the erection of the form scaffolding onsite.

Issued

2017-07-10 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-07-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $5070.00 · Current $2535.00 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:    a. Site- The employer did not provide a competent person to inspect an excavation into a hill for cave in hazards where employees were working and the excavation consisted of vertical walls approximately 12 feet in height.

Issued

2017-07-10 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-07-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $5070.00 · Current $2535.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.652(a)(1): Each employee in an excavation was not protected from cave-ins by an adequate protective system designed in accordance with 29 CFR 1926.652 (b) or (c).    a. Site- Employees working directly next to an excavation into a hill which contained vertical earth walls approximately 12 feet in height were not protected from a cave in where the employer did not provide cave in protection.