OSHA Inspection: EMILIO BENTACOURT

Issued

Jul 26, 2019

Abate by

Aug 7, 2019

Penalty

Initial $319 · Current $319

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1903.19(c)(1): The employer did not certify to OSHA, within 10 calendar days after the abatement date, that the cited violation had been abated:  The employer did not certify that the abatement was complete within 10 calendar days from the abatement due date:  a) Citation 1 Item 1, abatement date April 2, 2019 b) Citation 1 Item 2a, abatement date April 2, 2019 c) Citation 1 Item 2b, abatement date April 2, 2019 d) Citation 1 Item 2c, abatement date April 2, 2019 e) Citation 1 Item 3, abatement date April 2, 2019 f) Citation 1 Item 4a, abatement date April 2, 2019 g) Citation 1 Item 4b, abatement date April 2, 2019 h) Citation 1 Item 5, abatement date April 2, 2019 i) Citation 1 Item 6, abatement date April 2, 2019 j) Citation 1 Item 7a, abatement date April 2, 2019 k) Citation 1 Item 7b, abatement date April 2, 2019 l) Citation 1 Item 8a, abatement date April 2, 2019 m) Citation 1 Item 8b, abatement date April 2, 2019 n) Citation 1 Item 8c, abatement date April 2, 2019 o) Citation 1 Item 9, abatement date April 2, 2019 p) Citation 2 Item 1, abatement date April 2, 2019

Issued

Mar 7, 2019

Abate by

Apr 2, 2019

Penalty

Initial $2,273 · Current $1,300 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.178(l)(1)(i): The employer did not ensure that each powered industrial truck operator was competent to operate a powered industrial truck safely, as demonstrated by the successful completion of the training and evaluation specified in this paragraph (l)  (Construction Reference 1926.602):    (a) Throughout the jobsite, employees operated a JLG 8042 forklift truck. Employees were exposed to struck-by and crushed -by hazards.

Issued

Mar 7, 2019

Abate by

Apr 2, 2019

Penalty

Initial $2,273 · Current $1,300 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): The employer did not develop, implement, and/or maintain at the workplace a written hazard communication program which describes how the criteria specified in 29 CFR 1910.1200(f), (g), and (h) will be met (Construction Reference: 1926.59):    (a) Throughout the jobsite, the employer had not developed, implemented, and maintained a written hazard communication program for employees performing masonry installation operations who were exposed to hazardous chemicals including, but not limited to, Lehigh White Cement (contains quartz-respirable crystalline silica dust, calcium oxide and hexavalent chromium), which can result in silicosis, lung cancer, COPD, skin burns, serious eye damage, eye and skin irritation.

Issued

Mar 7, 2019

Abate by

Apr 2, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8): The employer did not ensure that material safety data sheets were readily accessible to the employees in their work area during each work shift (Construction Reference: 1926.59):  (a) Throughout the jobsite the employer did not ensure that safety data sheets for employees performing masonry installation operations who were exposed to hazardous chemicals including, but not limited to, Lehigh White Cement (contains quartz-respirable crystalline silica dust, calcium oxide and hexavalent chromium),  which can result in silicosis, lung cancer, COPD, skin burns, serious eye damage, eye and skin irritation.

Issued

Mar 7, 2019

Abate by

Apr 2, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1): Employees were not provided effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment and whenever a new hazard that the employees had not been previously trained about was introduced into their work area (Construction Reference: 1926.59):   (a) Throughout the jobsite, employees were not provided effective information and training on hazardous chemicals including, but not limited to, Lehigh White Cement (contains quartz-respirable crystalline silica dust, calcium oxide, and hexavalent chromium),  which can result in silicosis, lung cancer, COPD, skin burns, serious eye damage, eye and skin irritation.

Issued

Mar 7, 2019

Abate by

Apr 2, 2019

Penalty

Initial $2,273 · Current $1,300 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.50(g): Where employees were exposed to injurious corrosive materials, suitable facilities for quick drenching or flushing of the eyes and body were not provided within the work area for immediate emergency use:    (a) Throughout the jobsite, employees were working with corrosive chemicals including but not limited to: Lehigh White Cement.

Issued

Mar 7, 2019

Abate by

Apr 2, 2019

Penalty

Initial $2,273 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.51(f)(3)(iii): Lavatories were not provided with hand soap or similar cleansing agent:     (a) Northside of jobsite, inside the portable lavatory, employees are exposed to unsanitary conditions and communicable disease hazards.

Issued

Mar 7, 2019

Abate by

Apr 2, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.51(f)(3)(iv): Individual hand towels or sections thereof, of cloth or paper, air blowers or clean individual sections of continuous cloth toweling, convenient to the lavatories, were not provided:     (a) Northside of jobsite, inside the portable lavatory, workers are exposed to unsanitary conditions and communicable disease hazards.

Issued

Mar 7, 2019

Abate by

Apr 2, 2019

Penalty

Initial $1,705 · Current $1,000 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) Throughout the jobsite, employees were not protected from impact from falling or flying objects. Employees were not given protective helmets.

Issued

Mar 7, 2019

Abate by

Apr 2, 2019

Penalty

Initial $2,273 · Current $1,000 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) Throughout the jobsite, employees using Lehigh White Masonry Cement were not protected from corrosion of the eyes or skin.

Issued

Mar 7, 2019

Abate by

Apr 2, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,978 · Current $2,400 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(1): Supported scaffolds with a height to base width (including outrigger supports, if used) ratio of more than four to one (4:1) were not restrained from tipping by guying, tying, bracing, or equivalent means, as set forth in subparagraphs (i) - (iii) of this paragraph:     (a) Southside of the jobsite, southside tubular welded scaffold system, employees were exposed to scaffold collapse hazards.

Issued

Mar 7, 2019

Abate by

Apr 2, 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:  (a) Southside of jobsite, on the southside tubular welded scaffold system, where employees were working from the first and third tier of the tubular welded scaffold platform footings were supported by unstable objects. Employees were exposed to scaffold collapse hazards.

Issued

Mar 7, 2019

Abate by

Apr 2, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,978 · Current $2,400 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):     (a) Southside of the jobsite, on the first tier of the southside tubular welded scaffold system, employees were exposed to a fall hazard of 7-feet to the ground below;    (b) Southside of the jobsite, on the second tier of the southside tubular welded scaffold system, employees were exposed to a fall hazard of 14-feet to the ground below;    (b) Southside of the jobsite, on the third tier of the southside tubular welded scaffold system, employees were exposed to a fall hazard of 21-feet to the ground below.

Issued

Mar 7, 2019

Abate by

Apr 2, 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.  (a) Southside of the jobsite, on the southside tubular welded scaffold system, employees were exposed to a fall hazard of 21-feet to the ground below.

Issued

Mar 7, 2019

Abate by

Apr 2, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:  (a) Southside of the jobsite, on the third tier of the southside tubular welded scaffold system, employees were exposed to a fall hazard of 21-feet to the ground below.

Issued

Mar 7, 2019

Abate by

Apr 2, 2019

Penalty

Initial $2,273 · Current $1,300 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(2): Employees working below a scaffold were not protected from falling tools, materials or equipment in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs (h)(2)(i)-(v) of this section:    (a) Southside of the jobsite, southside tubular welded scaffold employees were not protected from impact from falling or flying objects.

Issued

Mar 7, 2019

Abate by

Apr 2, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(d)(1)(ii): The employer did not select and use a NIOSH-certified respirator in compliance with the conditions of its certification (Construction Reference 1926.103):   (a) Throughout the jobsite, an employee wore a facial balaclava for protection against Lehigh White Masonry Cement dust.