OSHA Inspection: BURKHART CONSTRUCTION INCORPORATED

Issued

2019-06-05 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-06-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2842.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

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)   The employer is failing to protect employees from fall hazards. This was most recently documented on or about December 7, 2018, at a jobsite located at 7436 1000 Road in Fredonia, Kansas. Employees working from tubular welded frame scaffolds were exposed to fall hazards in that the scaffolds used to access the top of the High Service Pump Station building were not completely planked exposing employees to fall hazards of approximately 12 feet to the concrete below.

Issued

2019-06-05 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-06-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2842.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(a)(2): The employer did not determine if the walking/working surfaces on which its employees were to work had the strength and structural integrity to support employees safely, the employees were allowed to work on surfaces that did not have the requisite strength and structural integrity:  The employer is failing to protect employees from fall hazards. This was most recently documented on or about December 7, 2018, at a jobsite located at 7436 1000 Road in Fredonia, Kansas. Employees were exposed to fall hazards in that the employer failed to ensure that employees did not walk on or work from unbraced trusses.

Issued

2019-06-05 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-06-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3978.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.503(a)(1): The employer did not provide a training program for each employee potentially exposed to fall hazards to enable each employee to recognize the hazards of falling and the procedures to be followed in order to minimize these hazards:  The employer is failing to protect employees from fall hazards. This was most recently documented on or about December 7, 2018, at a jobsite located at 7436 1000 Road in Fredonia, Kansas. Employees were exposed to fall hazards in that the employer did not train each employee to recognize, evaluate, and control fall hazards associated with walking on and working from unbraced roof trusses.

Issued

2019-06-05 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-06-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.503(b)(1): The employer did not verify compliance with paragraph (a) of this section (fall protection training) by preparing a written certification record which contained the name or other identity of the employee trained, the date(s) of the training, and the signature of the person who conducted the training or the signature of the employer:  On or about December 7, 2018, at a jobsite located at 7436 1000 Road in Fredonia, Kansas, the employer had not prepared a written certification record of fall protection training.  A certification record for each employee which contained the name or other identity of the employee and the date(s) of the training was not maintained.