OSHA Inspection: ABEL LEMUS

Issued

Mar 22, 2019

Abate by

Apr 1, 2019

Penalty

Initial $2,842 · Current $500 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.25(a): During the course of construction, alteration, or repairs,  debris was not kept cleared from work areas, passageways, and stairs, in and around buildings or other structures.      On or about December 5, 2018, and at times thereto, employees were exposed to a trip and fall hazard, while performing masonry work on a scaffold that had trash and debris in the areas in front of a residential construction home.

Issued

Mar 22, 2019

Abate by

Apr 1, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,978 · Current $1,000 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:      On or about December 05, 2018 and at times thereto, employees were exposed to a struck-by hazard while walking underneath a scaffold where masonry stones had been placed without wearing protective helmets.

Issued

Mar 22, 2019

Abate by

Apr 1, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,978 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(1): Each employee on a scaffold was not provided with additional protection from falling hand tools, debris, and other small objects through the installation of toeboards, screens, guardrail systems, or through the erection of debris nets, catch platforms, or canopy structures that contain or deflect the falling objects.  For falling objects too large, heavy or massive to be contained or deflected, the employer did not place and secure such potential falling objects away from the edge of the surface from which they could fall:      On or about December 05, 2018 and at times thereto, employees were exposed to a struck-by hazard from masonry stones that were not properly secured and not moved from the edge of the second level of the scaffold platform.

Issued

Mar 22, 2019

Abate by

Apr 1, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,410 · Current $3,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Platform(s) on all working levels of scaffolds, were not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and guardrail supports such that the space between the adjacent units and the space between the platform and the uprights is no more than 1 inch wide except where wider space is necessary:      On or about December 05, 2018, and at times thereto, employees were exposed to a fall hazard while performing masonry work from a scaffold that was not fully planked on the first and second platform levels.

Issued

Mar 22, 2019

Abate by

Apr 1, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:      On or about December 05, 2018, and at times thereto, employees were exposed to a fall hazard while performing masonry work from a scaffold that had intermixed frame components and was not structurally sound.

Issued

Mar 22, 2019

Abate by

Apr 1, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:      On or about December 05, 2018, and at times thereto, employees were exposed to a fall hazard while performing masonry work from a scaffold that did not have an adequate and secure foundation.

Issued

Mar 22, 2019

Abate by

Apr 1, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2)(i): Footings were not level, sound, rigid, and capable of supporting the loaded scaffold without settling or displacement:      On or about December 05, 2018, and at times thereto, employees were exposed to a fall hazard while performing masonry work from a scaffold that did not have sound footing on all six of the scaffold pole legs.

Issued

Mar 22, 2019

Abate by

Apr 1, 2019

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:    On or about December 05, 2018, and at times thereto, employees were exposed to a fall hazard while performing masonry work from a scaffold without a ladder for access and egress.

Issued

Mar 22, 2019

Abate by

Apr 1, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,410 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(b)(2): The employer did not have each employee who was involved in erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, maintaining, or inspecting a scaffold trained by a competent person to recognize any hazards associated with the correct procedures for erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, inspecting, and maintaining the type of scaffold in question:      On or about December 5, 2018, and at times thereto, employees were exposed to fall and struck-by hazards without being trained on scaffolding operations and their associated hazards.