OSHA Inspection: MONTOYA ERECTORS

Issued

Feb 22, 2019

Abate by

Feb 28, 2019

Penalty

Initial $5,304 · Current $3,606 Reduced

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) On August 25th, 2018 and at time prior employees performing steel erection work were exposed to struck-by hazards from overhead beams not properly secured to the forks of a rough terrain forklift in the vicinity of 72nd Avenue NW & 38th Street NW in Parshall, North Dakota.

Issued

Feb 22, 2019

Abate by

Feb 28, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.752(d): Pre-planning of overhead hoisting operations. Hoisting operations in steel erection were not pre-planned to ensure that the requirements of �� 1926.753(d) were met:  (a)   On August 25th, 2018 and at time prior the employees were exposed to struck-by hazards where the employer failed to pre-plan all hoisting operations before commencing steel erection work in the vicinity of 72nd Avenue NW & 38th Street NW in Parshall, North Dakota.

Issued

Feb 22, 2019

Abate by

Feb 28, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.753(d)(2)(i): Materials being hoisted were not rigged to prevent unintentional displacement:  (a)   On August 25th, 2018 and at times prior employees were exposed to being struck by a horizontal beam, that was rigged with a synthetic strap with only one leg and attached to a fork on the rough terrain forklift in the vicinity of 72nd Avenue NW & 38th Street NW in Parshall, ND.

Issued

Feb 22, 2019

Abate by

Feb 28, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.753(d)(2)(iii): Loads were not rigged by a qualified rigger:   (a)   On August 25th, 2018 an employee was working inside a mobile scaffold system doing steel erection work and was struck by a horizontal beam. The beam was rigged with a synthetic strap with only one leg and attached to a fork on the rough terrain forklift resulting in the mobile scaffold being tipped over and the employee sustaining fatal injuries in the vicinity of 72nd Avenue NW & 38th Street NW in Parshall, ND.

Issued

Feb 22, 2019

Abate by

Feb 28, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.761(c)(2)(i): The employer did not ensure each connector had been provided proper training in the hazards associated with connecting:  (a)   On August 25th, 2018 an employee working inside a mobile scaffold system connecting a horizontal steel beam to a vertical beam and was struck by the horizontal beam that was improperly rigged resulting in the mobile scaffold being tipped over and the employee sustaining fatal injuries in the vicinity of 72nd Avenue NW & 38th Street NW in Parshall, ND.

Issued

Feb 22, 2019

Abate by

Feb 28, 2019

Penalty

Initial $5,304 · Current $3,606 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(9): Swinging loads were not controlled while being hoisted onto or near scaffolds such that the loads might contact the scaffold, tag lines or equivalent measures to control the loads:    On August 25th, 2018 an employee was working inside a mobile scaffold system doing steel erection work that was struck by a horizontal beam resulting in the mobile scaffold being tipped over and the employee sustaining fatal injuries in the vicinity of 72nd Avenue NW & 38th Street NW in Parshall, ND.

Issued

Feb 22, 2019

Abate by

Mar 29, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.602(d): The employer did not certify that each operator had been trained and evaluated as required by paragraph 29 CFR 1910.178:  On August 25th, 2018 and at times prior, an employee was operating a rough terrain forklift without training and evaluation which resulted in a horizontal beam being lifted by the operator striking a mobile scaffold system and an employee sustaining fatal injuries in the vicinity of 72nd Avenue NW & 38th Street NW in Parshall, ND.

Issued

Feb 22, 2019

Abate by

Feb 28, 2019

Penalty

Initial $10,608 · Current $8,909 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.602(c)(1)(vi): Industrial truck(s) in use did not meet the applicable requirements of design, construction, stability, inspection, testing, maintenance, and operation, as defined in American National Standards Institute B56.1-1969, Safety Standards for Powered Industrial Trucks:     (a)   On August 25th, 2018 employees were exposed to multiple struck-by hazards while setting and securing both horizontal and vertical beams that were improperly rigged and while working underneath loads in the vicinity of 72nd Avenue NW & 38th Street NW in Parshall, ND.       NOTE: Montoya Erectors, Inc, was previously cited for a violation of this Occupational Safety and Health Standard, or its equivalent, which was contained in OSHA inspection #1302434, citation #1, Item #3, and was affirmed as final order on 6/19/2018, with respect to the workplace located at Family Dollar Project, Rt. 264 Narbona Circle, Window Rock, AZ 86515

Issued

Feb 22, 2019

Abate by

Feb 28, 2019

Penalty

Initial $7,578 · Current $5,879 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.701(b): All protruding reinforcing steel, onto and/or into which employees could fall, was not guarded to eliminate the hazard of impalement:    (a)   On August 25th, 2018 and at time prior employees were exposed to impalement hazards from multiple sections of rebar that were not properly protected in the vicinity of 72nd Avenue NW & 38th Street NW in Parshall, North Dakota.    NOTE: Montoya Erectors, Inc., was previously cited for a violation of this Occupational Safety and Health Standard, or its equivalent standard, which was contained in OSHA inspection #1302434, citation #1, Item #4, and was affirmed as final order on 6/19/2018, with respect to the workplace located at Family Dollar Project, Rt. 264 Narbona Circle, Window Rock, AZ 86515

Issued

Feb 22, 2019

Abate by

Feb 28, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.752(b): The steel erection contractor began steel erection work without written notification that the concrete in the in the footings, piers and wall, or the mortar in the in the masonry piers and walls has attained, on the basis of an appropriate ASTM standard test method of field-cured samples, either 75 percent of the intended minimum compressive design strength or sufficient strength to support the loads imposed during steel erection:      (a)   On August 25th, 2018 and at time prior employees were exposed to struck by hazards where the steel erection contractor initiated erection activities without obtaining documentation from the controlling employer showing the concrete would support steel erection activities in the vicinity of 72nd Avenue NW & 38th Street NW in Parshall, North Dakota.