OSHA Inspection: M. KANALES STUCCO

Issued

Dec 17, 2018

Abate by

Jan 2, 2019

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).   At a commercial construction jobsite, employees were performing masonry activities from a tubular welded frame scaffold that was not fully decked, exposing employees to fall hazards of approximately 13 feet to the ground below.

Issued

Dec 17, 2018

Abate by

Jan 2, 2019

Penalty

Initial $2,956 · Current $2,956

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.  Cross-braces were used as a means of access.   At a commercial construction jobsite, employees performing masonry activities from a tubular welded frame scaffold was not provided with a ladder for safe access and/or egress from the different working levels on the scaffold, exposing employees to fall hazards of approximately 13 feet to the ground below.

Issued

Dec 17, 2018

Abate by

Jan 2, 2019

Penalty

Initial $5,174 · Current $5,174

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(7): Scaffolds were not erected, moved, dismantled, or altered, by trained and experienced employees under the supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection, moving, dismantling or alteration:; Such activities were not performed only by experienced and trained employees selected for such work by the competent person.   At a commercial jobsite, the employees working from a tubular welded frame scaffold was not erected by a competent person, exposing employees to fall hazards of 13 feet to the ground below.

Issued

Dec 17, 2018

Abate by

Jan 2, 2019

Penalty

Initial $5,174 · Current $5,174

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Employees on scaffolds more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level by fall protection established in paragraphs (g)(1)(i)-(vii) of this section:   At a commercial construction jobsite, on the north side of the building employees performing masonry activities from a tubular welded frame scaffold at a car wash were not provided with fall protection, exposing employees to fall hazards of approximately 13 feet to the ground below.

Issued

Dec 17, 2018

Abate by

Jan 2, 2019

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.   At a commercial construction jobsite, on the north side of building, the west and east sides of the tubular welded frame scaffold had no fall protection on the scaffold ends to protect employees performing masonry activities from a fall hazards of approximately 13 feet to the ground below.

Issued

Dec 17, 2018

Abate by

Jan 2, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,696 · Current $3,696

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(4): End frames of tubular welded frame scaffolding were not locked together vertically by use of pins or equivalent means in areas where uplift could occur:   The employer failed to use locking pins on the tubular welded frame scaffold where uplift could occur exposing employees to struck by hazards due to a scaffold collapse.

Issued

Dec 17, 2018

Abate by

Jan 2, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,696 · Current $3,696

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.   The employer failed to train all employees on the hazards associated with working on the tubular welded frame scaffold; exposing employees to fall and/or struck by hazards.