OSHA Inspection: GR CAMPBELL CONSTRUCTION, LLC

Issued

Oct 12, 2018

Penalty

Initial $3,326 · Current $2,162 Reduced

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) 40113 Owens CT, The Curves Lot 2, Fenwick Island, DE - On or about September 28, 2018, the employer failed to ensure each employee working on scaffold more than 10 feet above a lower level was protected from falls.

Issued

Oct 12, 2018

Abate by

Oct 18, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(4)(i): Guardrail systems were not installed along all open sides and ends of platforms.  a) 40113 Owens CT, The Curves Lot 2, Fenwick Island, DE - On or about September 28, 2018, the employer failed to ensure guardrails were installed along open sides and ends of platforms, exposing employees to falls.

Issued

Oct 12, 2018

Abate by

Oct 18, 2018

Penalty

Initial $3,326 · Current $2,162 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(10): Scaffold components manufactured by different manufacturers were modified in order to intermix them and a competent person did not determine that the resulting scaffold was structurally sound:    a) 40113 Owens CT, The Curves Lot 2, Fenwick Island, DE - On or about September 28, 2018, the employer failed to ensure tube welded and pump jack scaffold components were not intermixed or determine that scaffold was structurally sound, exposing employees for falls.

Issued

Oct 12, 2018

Abate by

Oct 18, 2018

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, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access.  a) 40113 Owens CT, The Curves Lot 2, Fenwick Island, DE - On or about September 28, 2018, the employer failed to ensure scaffold platforms more than two feet above or below a point of access had direct access. Employees used crossbraces as means of access.

Issued

Oct 12, 2018

Abate by

Nov 30, 2018

Penalty

Initial $1,663 · Current $1,081 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(a): The employer did not have each employee who performed work while on a scaffold trained by a person qualified in the subject matter to recognize the hazards associated with the type of scaffold being used and to understand the procedures to control or minimize those hazards.     a) 40113 Owens CT, The Curves Lot 2, Fenwick Island, DE - On or about September 28, 2018, the employer did not provide each employee performing siding work on scaffold training to recognize and minimize hazards.

Issued

Oct 12, 2018

Penalty

Initial $1,663 · Current $1,081 Reduced

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:    a) 40113 Owens CT, The Curves Lot 2, Fenwick Island, DE - On or about September 28, 2018, the employer failed to ensure ladders extended at least three feet above the upper landing, exposing employees to falls.

Issued

Oct 12, 2018

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(5)(i): Non-self-supporting ladders were not used at an angle such than the horizontal distance from the top support to the foot of the ladder way approximately one-quarter of the working length of the ladder (the distance along the ladder between the foot and the top support).  a) 40113 Owens CT, The Curves Lot 2, Fenwick Island, DE - On or about September 28, 2018, the employer failed to ensure portable ladders were used at an angle so this distance from top support to foot was approximately one-quarter (2.5') of the working length of the ladder (10').

Issued

Oct 12, 2018

Abate by

Nov 30, 2018

Penalty

Initial $1,663 · Current $1,081 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1060(a): The employer did not provide a training program for each employee using ladders and stairways, as necessary, which would enable each employee to recognize hazards related to ladders and stairways and train each employee in the procedures to be followed to minimize these hazards.    a) 40113 Owens CT, The Curves Lot 2, Fenwick Island, DE - On or about September 28, 2018, the employer failed to provide training to each employee using ladders to recognize and minimize the hazards.