OSHA Inspection: CM & ASSOCIATES CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT, LLC.

Issued

Nov 14, 2017

Penalty

Initial $11,408 · Current $9,286 Reduced

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.      a) Exterior supported scaffold on the 2nd floor roof courtyard of 156 North 4th Street, Brooklyn, NY:      Employees were manually hoisting a gang box from the frames, cross braces, and planks of a 5-tier high supported scaffold. Each platform which employees worked on was not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports. On or about 08/24/17.

Issued

Nov 14, 2017

Penalty

Initial $11,408 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(2): Scaffold platforms and walkways were not at least 18 inches wide:      a) Exterior supported scaffold on the 2nd floor roof courtyard of 156 North 4th Street, Brooklyn, NY:      Employees were manually hoisting a gang box from the frames, cross braces, and planks of a 5-tier high supported scaffold. Each platform which employees worked on was not at least 18 inches wide. On or about 08/24/17.

Issued

Nov 14, 2017

Penalty

Initial $11,408 · Current $9,286 Reduced

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) Exterior supported scaffold on the 2nd floor roof courtyard of 156 North 4th Street, Brooklyn, NY:      Employees were manually hoisting a gang box from the frames, cross braces, and planks of a 5-tier high supported scaffold. Employees used the frames and cross braces of the scaffold as a means of access during hoisting operation. On or about 08/24/17.

Issued

Nov 14, 2017

Penalty

Initial $11,408 · Current $9,286 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(9): Where swinging loads are being hoisted onto or near scaffolds such that the loads might contact the scaffold, tag lines or equivalent measures to control the loads shall be used.      a) Exterior supported scaffold on the 2nd floor roof courtyard of 156 North 4th Street, Brooklyn, NY:      Employees were manually hoisting a gang box from the frames, cross braces, and planks of a 5-tier high supported scaffold. Tag lines or equivalent measures to control the load were not used. The gang box contacted the scaffold multiple times as it was being hoisted. On or about 08/24/17.

Issued

Nov 14, 2017

Penalty

Initial $11,408 · Current $9,286 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1):  Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above a lower level shall be protected from falling to that lower level. Paragraphs (g)(1)(i) through (vii) of this section establish the types of fall protection to be provided to the employees on each type of scaffold. Paragraph (g)(2) of this section addresses fall protection for scaffold erectors and dismantlers.      a) Exterior supported scaffold on the 2nd floor roof courtyard of 156 North 4th Street, Brooklyn, NY:      Employees were manually hoisting a gang box from the frames, cross braces, and planks of a 5-tier high supported scaffold. Employees were not protected from falling to lower levels by the use of fall protection systems and were exposed to falling up to 25 feet. On or about 08/24/17.

Issued

Nov 14, 2017

Abate by

Dec 4, 2017

Penalty

Initial $11,408 · Current $9,286 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(c): The employer had reason to believe that an employee lacked the skill or understanding needed for safe work involving the erection, use or dismantling of scaffolds, and the employer did not retrain such employee so that the requisite proficiency was regained:      a) Exterior supported scaffold on the 2nd floor roof courtyard of 156 North 4th Street, Brooklyn, NY:      Employees were manually hoisting a gang box from the frames, cross braces, and planks of a 5-tier high supported scaffold, and were exposed to hazards including but not limited to: falling more than 10 feet to lower levels and climbing scaffold frames and cross braces as a means of access. Employees believe that they were working safely and were exposed to acceptable hazards. The employer did not retrain employees on scaffold use so that the requisite proficiency on work safety was regained. On or about 08/24/17.

Issued

Nov 14, 2017

Penalty

Initial $11,408 · Current $9,285 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(1):  Each employee on a walking/working surface (horizontal and vertical surface) with an unprotected side or edge which is 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above a lower level was not protected from falling by the use of guardrail systems, safety net systems, or personal fall arrest systems.      a) On the building top roof of 156 North 4th Street, Brooklyn, NY:      Employees were manually hoisting a gang box from the building top roof at an unprotected edge without fall protection, and were exposed to falling approximately 25 feet. On or about 08/24/17.

Issued

Nov 14, 2017

Abate by

Dec 4, 2017

Penalty

Initial $11,408 · Current $9,285 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.503(c)(3): The employer did not retrain affected employees  who already had been trained but demonstrated inadequate  understanding and skill required by paragraph (a) of this section:      a) On the building top roof of 156 North 4th Street, Brooklyn, NY:      Employees were manually hoisting a gang box from the building top roof at an unprotected edge without fall protection, and were exposed to falling approximately 25 feet. Employees believe that they were working safely and were exposed to acceptable hazards. The employer did not retrain affected employees who already had been trained but demonstrated inadequate understanding and skill required for fall protection. On or about 08/24/17.