OSHA Inspection: THUNDER CONTRACTOR LLC

Issued

Nov 29, 2017

Penalty

Initial $1,630 · Current $1,630

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:           a) Exterior of Building - Scaffold Lexington Ave: Employees were exposed to head injury while engaged in masonry activity with other employees working above them without the use of protective helmets, on or about 10/31/17.

Issued

Nov 29, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $3,803

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Platform(s) on all working levels of scaffolds, were not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and guardrail supports:   a) Exterior of Building - Scaffold Parking Lot: Employees engaged in masonry activities from a welded frame scaffold platform with only 2 planks were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 12 feet, on or about 10/9/17.  b) Exterior of Building - Scaffold Lexington Ave: Employees engaged in masonry activities from a welded frame scaffold platform with only 2 planks were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 12 feet, on or about 10/16/17.

Issued

Nov 29, 2017

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames,  or uprights did not bear on base plates, mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:    a) Exterior of Building -  Scaffold Parking Lot: Employees were exposed to fall hazards of approximately  12 feet while engaged in masonry activities from a welded frame scaffold that was resting on a piece of wood without a metal base plate, on or about 10/9/17.  b) Exterior of Building -  Scaffold Lexington Ave.: Employees were exposed to fall hazards of approximately  12 feet while engaged in masonry activities from a welded frame scaffold that was resting on a piece of wood without a metal base plate, on or about 10/16/17.

Issued

Nov 29, 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, sturcure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access.  a) Exterior of Building - Scaffold Lexington Ave: Employees were exposed to a fall hazards of approximately 12 feet while engaged in masonry activities from a welded frame scaffold that did not have a proper means of access, on or about 10/31/17.

Issued

Nov 29, 2017

Penalty

Initial $3,803 · Current $3,803

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level.   a) Exterior of Building - Scaffold Parking Lot: Employees without proper means of fall protection, engaged in masonry activities from a welded frame scaffold platform, were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 12 feet, on or about 10/9/17.  b) Exterior of Building - Scaffold Lexington Ave: Employees without proper means of fall protection, engaged in masonry activities from a welded frame scaffold platform, were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 12 feet, on or about 10/16/17.