OSHA Inspection: A-1 IRON WORKS CONTRACTING CORP.

Issued

Sep 19, 2018

Penalty

Initial $5,174 · Current $5,174

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 as specified in paragraphs 1926.451(b)(1)(i)-(ii)     Location:  a) Supported scaffold on first floor of the jobsite:     On or about 08/08/18, an employee was installing structural steel on the first tier platform of a single-tier-high supported scaffold that was not fully planked or decked between front upright and the guardrail supports, and was exposed to falling approximately 6 feet to the lower level.

Issued

Sep 19, 2018

Penalty

Initial $5,174 · Current $5,174

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.     Location:  a) Supported scaffold on first floor of the jobsite:     On or about 08/08/18, an employee was installing structural steel on the first tier platform of a single-tier-high supported scaffold. The supported scaffold legs did not bear on base plates, mud sills or other adequate firm foundation.

Issued

Sep 19, 2018

Penalty

Initial $5,174 · Current $5,174

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(3): Supported scaffold poles, legs, post, frames, and/or uprights were not plumb and braced to prevent swaying and displacement     Location:  a) Supported scaffold on first floor of the jobsite:     On or about 08/08/18, an employee was installing structural steel on the first tier platform of a single-tier-high supported scaffold. The supported scaffold poles, legs, post, frames, and/or uprights were not plumb and braced to prevent swaying and displacement.

Issued

Sep 19, 2018

Penalty

Initial $5,174 · Current $5,174

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.  Scaffold frames were used as a means of access.     Location:  a) Supported scaffold on first floor of the jobsite:     On or about 08/08/18, an employee climbed the scaffold frames as a mean of access from the first tier platform of a single-tier-high supported scaffold to the ground level.

Issued

Sep 19, 2018

Abate by

Sep 25, 2018

Penalty

Initial $6,467 · Current $6,467

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(1): Each employee on a walking/working surface with an unprotected side or edge which was 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.    Location:  a) On the second floor of the jobsite:    On or about 08/08/18, an employee was exposed to falling approximately 10 feet from the second floor to the ground level. The unprotected side was not protected from falling by the use of guardrail systems, safety net systems, or personal fall arrest systems.

Issued

Sep 19, 2018

Abate by

Sep 25, 2018

Penalty

Initial $6,467 · Current $6,467

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1): Where a portable ladder was used for access to an upper level landing surface and the ladder length did not allow the ladder side rails to extend at least 3 feet (0.9 m) above the upper landing surface being accessed; the ladder was not secured at its top to a rigid support that will not deflect, and/or a grasping device was not provided to assist employees in mounting and dismounting the ladder.      Location:  a) On the first floor of the jobsite:     On or about 08/08/18, an employee used a portable extension ladder for access the first floor from second floor. The ladder length did not allow the ladder side rails to extend at least 3 feet (0.9 m) above the upper landing surface being accessed. The ladder also was not secured at its top. Employee was exposed to fall approximately 10 feet.