OSHA Inspection: RODRIGUES SIDING AND ROOFING LLC

Issued

Jul 31, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,259 · Current $1,630 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns, were not protected by protective helmets:      Head protective equipment was not used when workers were exposed to struck-by hazards when worker on the ground was working below unsecured tools and material on the roof.

Issued

Jul 31, 2017

Penalty

Initial $2,173 · Current $1,087 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1):  Eye and face protective equipment were not used when machines or operations presented potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents:      Eye protective equipment was not used when employees were exposed to eye injury while tearing off old roof shingles, and using pneumatic nail guns to install new roof shingles.

Issued

Jul 31, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $1,901 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13): Each employee engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet (1.8 m)  or more above lower levels was not protected by guardrail systems, safety net systems, personal fall arrest systems, or an alternative fall protection measure under another provision of paragraph 1926.501 (b), nor did the employer demonstrate that it is infeasible or creates a greater hazard to use these systems and develop and implement a fall protection plan which meets the requirements of paragraph (k) of section 1926.502:      The employer did not ensure fall protection was implemented during residential construction operations when workers were exposed to the hazard of falling approximately twenty-four (24) feet off the roof eve when they were performing roofing operations.

Issued

Jul 31, 2017

Abate by

Aug 25, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $1,901 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1): Portable ladders are used for access to an upper landing surface and the ladder side rails do not extend at least 3 feet (.9 m) above the upper landing surface to which the ladder is used to gain access:      The employer did not ensure portable ladders were constructed and placed so three (3) feet or more was extended above the upper landing.  Workers performing residential construction were exposed to falling approximately twenty-four (24) feet while using an extension ladder to ascend/descend from the roof to the ground.