OSHA Inspection: BRUNGA CONSTRUCTION INC.

Issued

2019-02-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1705.00 · Current $243.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds shall be fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports as follows:    location: front of building  on or about: 2/8/19    a) Employees were working from a tubular welded frame scaffold. The working level of the scaffold was not fully decked.      NOTE: Because abatement of this violation is already documented in the inspection casefile, the employer need not submit certification or documentation of abatement for this violation as normally required by 29 CFR 1903.19.

Issued

2019-02-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1705.00 · Current $243.00 Reduced

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:    location: front of building  on or about: 2/8/19    a) Employees were working on a  tubular welded frame scaffold. The employees were not provided with adequate access. The employees were climbing the walk through frames.     NOTE: Because abatement of this violation is already documented in the inspection casefile, the employer need not submit certification or documentation of abatement for this violation as normally required by 29 CFR 1903.19.

Issued

2019-02-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3978.00 · Current $528.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above a lower level was not protected from falling to that lower level:    location: front of building  on or about: 2/8/19    a) Employees, engaged in stucco work from a tubular welded frame scaffold, were not provided with fall protection. The employees were exposed to a fall of up to 19 feet.     NOTE: Because abatement of this violation is already documented in the inspection casefile, the employer need not submit certification or documentation of abatement for this violation as normally required by 29 CFR 1903.19.

Issued

2019-02-21 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-09-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1705.00 · Current $243.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(a): The employer shall 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:    location: entire site  on or about: 2/8/19    a) Employees were working from a tubular welded frame scaffold. The employees were not provided with scaffold safety training.      NOTE: The employer is required to submit abatement certification for this item in accordance with 29 CFR 1903.19.

Issued

2019-02-21 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-03-26 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1060(a): The employer did not provide a training program for each employee using ladders and stairways, as necessary, which would enable each employee to recognize hazards related to ladders and stairways and train each employee in the procedures to be followed to minimize these hazards:  location: entire site on or about: 2/8/19  a) Employees used the stairs in the front of the building. The open sided stairs did not have stairrails. The employees were not trained to recognize hazards associated with stairways.   NOTE: The employer is required to submit abatement certification for this item in accordance with 29 CFR 1903.19.

Issued

2019-02-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1705.00 · Current $243.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1052(c)(1): Stairways having four or more risers or rising more than 30 inches (76 cm), whichever is less, were not equipped with at least one handrail and one stairrail system along each unprotected side or edge:    location: front of building  on or about: 2/8/19    a) Employees used the stairs in the front of the building. The open sided stairs did not have stairrails.      NOTE: Because abatement of this violation is already documented in the inspection casefile, the employer need not submit certification or documentation of abatement for this violation as normally required by 29 CFR 1903.19.