OSHA Inspection: ELITE CUSTOM CONCRETE, LLC

Issued

Aug 25, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $3,803

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(3): Scaffolds and scaffold components shall be inspected for visible defects by a competent person before each work shift, and after any occurrence which could affect a scaffold's structural integrity.   On or about August 24, 2017, the employer failed to ensure that a competent person inspected a mobile scaffold prior to it being put into use at a job site.  An employee was observed using this scaffold to perform the task of cutting out portions of an exterior building wall in order to install a large widow at a store located at the end of a small strip mall.

Issued

Aug 25, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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.    On or about August 24, 2017, the employer failed to ensure that an access ladder was used to get on to and off of a mobile scaffold.  An employee was using the scaffolds cross braces and other structural components to climb up and down from the scaffold.

Issued

Aug 25, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(w)(1): The mobile scaffold was not braced by cross, horizontal, or diagonal braces, or combination thereof, to prevent racking or collapse of the scaffold and secure vertical members together laterally so as to automatically square and align the vertical members.  On or about August 24, 2017, the employer failed to ensure that a mobile scaffold was properly braced.  An employee who was climbing on and working from the scaffold had unconnected a cross brace so that he could get closer to the building wall that he was cutting with a circular hand saw (Husqvarna, X-TORQ orange).

Issued

Aug 25, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(a): The employer did not have each employee who performs work while on a scaffold(s) trained by a person qualified in the subject matter to recognize those hazards associated with the type of scaffold(s) being used:  On or about August 24, 2017, the employer failed to ensure that an employee using a mobile scaffold was properly trained in the hazards associated with the use of the scaffold.  An employee was using the mobile scaffold to perform the task of cutting out portions of an exterior building wall in order to install a large widow at a store located at the end of a small strip mall.

Issued

Aug 25, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $3,803

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Employees on scaffolds more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level by fall protection established in paragraphs (g)(1)(i)-(vii) of this section:  On or about August 24, 2017, the employer failed to ensure that an employee who was working from a height of approximately 16 feet on a mobile scaffold was protected from a fall hazard.  The employee was not wearing a personal fall arrest system and harness.