OSHA Inspection: FRANCISCO PORTILLO

Issued

Oct 6, 2017

Abate by

Nov 24, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $3,803

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13): Each employee(s) engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels were not protected by guardrail systems, safety net system, or personal fall arrest system:     The employer is failing to ensure that all employees exposed to fall hazards while working on a residential roof are utilizing fall protection.  This most recently occurred on August 22, 2017 on the jobsite located at 216 Fleetwood Dr., Papillion, NE 68133.  Four employees were observed on the roof of a 2-story house with a 6 in 12 steep sloped roof at heights greater than 6 feet above the ground and not utilizing any form of fall protection.

Issued

Oct 6, 2017

Abate by

Nov 24, 2017

Penalty

Initial $2,716 · Current $2,716

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:     The employer is failing to ensure that each employee exposed to fall hazards has been effectively trained on fall hazard recognition and on how to use fall protection.  This most recently occurred on August 22, 2017 on the jobsite located at 216 Fleetwood Dr., Papillion, NE 68133.  The employer has 4 employees who have not receive fall protection training and are exposed to fall hazards while re-roofing an existing residential home that has a 6 in 12 steep sloped pitch and a ground to eave height of about 20 feet.

Issued

Oct 6, 2017

Abate by

Nov 24, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $3,803

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1): Where portable ladders were used for access to an upper landing surface and the ladder's length allows, the ladder side rails did not extend at least 3 feet (.9 m) above the upper landing surface being accessed:     The employer is failing to ensure that all employees are protected from fall hazards when entering and exiting the landing surface of a residential roof.  This most recently occurred on August 22, 2017 on the jobsite located at 216 Fleetwood Dr., Papillion, NE 68133.  Employees are using 3 different aluminum extension ladders to enter and exit the roof where the side rails were not extended to at least 3 feet above the landing surface.

Issued

Oct 6, 2017

Abate by

Nov 24, 2017

Penalty

Initial $2,716 · Current $2,716

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1060(a)(1)(iii): The employer did not ensure that each employee using ladders and/or stairways had been trained by a competent person in the proper construction, use, placement, and care in handling the ladders and/or stairways:     The employer is failing to train the employees to recognized fall hazards associated with using a ladder to access and egress a roof of an existing residential home.  This most recently occurred on August 22, 2017 on the jobsite located at 216 Fleetwood Dr., Papillion, NE 68133.  The employer had untrained employees using 3 aluminum extension ladder as a means to access and egress the roof which has an eave to ground height of approximately 12 feet.  The ladders being used were not extended a minimum of three feet over the upper landing surface.