OSHA Inspection: STONE COAT OF NORTH DALLAS, LLC

Issued

2019-02-15 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-03-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3410.00 · Current $2052.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees were not protected by protective helmets while working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or from falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns:    (a) The employer did not ensure that employees working on the ground directly under employees working approximately twenty (20) feet above them; were wearing protective helmets thereby exposing employees working on the ground to a struck-by hazard from falling materials and/or tools.

Issued

2019-02-15 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-03-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3978.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): The employer did not ensure that each affected employee used appropriate eye or face protection when exposed to eye or face hazards from flying particles, molten metal, liquid chemicals, acids or caustic liquids, chemical gases or vapors, or potentially injurious light radiation:    (a) On or about January 30, 2019 the employer did not ensure that each employee working with pneumatic nail guns and hammers were protected from a struck-by hazard.

Issued

2019-02-15 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-03-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3978.00 · Current $2388.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1)(i): Each platform unit (e.g., scaffold plank, fabricated plank, fabricated deck, or fabricated platform) was not installed so that the space between adjacent units and the space between the platform and the uprights were no more than 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide, except where the employer can demonstrate that a wider space is necessary:    (a) On or about January 30, 2019 employees working off of the second tier of tubular welded frame scaffolding were not protected from a fall hazard of approximately thirteen (13) feet by ensuring that it was fully planked.    (b) On or about January 30, 2019 employees working off of the first tier of tubular welded frame scaffolding were not protected from a fall hazard of approximately seven (7) feet by ensuring that it was fully planked.

Issued

2019-02-15 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-03-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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:  (a) On or about January 30, 2019 employees working off of the second tier of tubular welded frame scaffolding were not protected from a fall hazard of approximately thirteen (13) feet; in that, sixteen (16) of the twenty (20) scaffolding legs were not resting on base plates and mud sills. The leg poles were placed directly on the concrete sidewalk with all eight of the legs facing north resting approximately 1.5 inches from the edge of the concrete, which could fail/blowout.

Issued

2019-02-15 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-03-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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:  (a) On or about January 30, 2019 employees working off of tubular welded frame scaffolding built over two tiers high were accessing it by climbing directly on the end frames exposing them to a fall hazard of approximately thirteen (13) feet.

Issued

2019-02-15 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-03-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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:  (a) On or about January 30, 2019 employees working off of tubular welded frame scaffolding built over two tiers high were exposed to a fall hazard in that the scaffolding had not been erected under the supervision of a competent person so it had many discrepancies.

Issued

2019-02-15 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-03-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(vii): Each employee on a scaffold, not otherwise specified in paragraphs (g)(1)(i) through (g)(1)(vi) of this section, more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above lower level was not protected from falls by the use of personal fall arrest systems or guardrail systems meeting the requirements of paragraph (g)(4) of this section:  (a) On or about January 30, 2019 employee(s) performing underlayment installation working from tubular welded frame scaffold built two tiers tall were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately thirteen (13) feet above the ground level below in that the scaffolding had no guard rail system and the employees were not using personal fall arrest systems.

Issued

2019-02-15 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-03-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3978.00 · Current $2388.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(1): Each employee on a walking/working surface with an unprotected side or edge which was 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above a lower level was not protected from falling by the use of guardrail systems, safety net systems, or personal fall arrest systems:       (a) On or about January 30, 2019; five employees were working to install underlayment at the edge of a flat roof approximately twenty (20) feet above the ground below and were not protected from a fall hazard by using either guardrail systems, safety net systems, or personal fall arrest systems.

Issued

2019-02-15 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-03-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3978.00 · Current $2388.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(4): Ladders were used for purposes other than the purposes for which they were designed:    (a) On or about January 7, 2019; five employees were using an A-Frame ladder, which had been left closed and placed on top of two-tier scaffolding resting against the exterior north wall of the building exposing the employees using it to access the roof to a fall hazard of approximately twenty (20) feet.