OSHA Inspection: RICKY JONES

Issued

Jul 11, 2019

Penalty

Initial $4,376 · Current $1,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(10): Each employee engaged in roofing activities on low-slope roofs with unprotected sides and edges 6 feet or more above lower levels, was not protected from falling by guardrail systems, safety net systems, personal fall arrest systems, or a combination of warning line system and guardrail system, warning line system and safety net system, or warning line system and personal fall arrest system, or warning line system and safety monitoring system.  Or, on roofs 50-feet (15.25 m) or less in width, each employee was not protected by use of a monitoring system.    a) At the construction site, employees engaged in roofing activities without fall protection were exposed to fall hazards in excess of six feet.

Issued

Jul 11, 2019

Abate by

Aug 6, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:  a) At the construction site, employees performing roofing work without fall protection were not provided a program to enable them to recognize fall hazards and the procedures to follow in order to minimize those hazards.

Issued

Jul 11, 2019

Abate by

Aug 6, 2019

Penalty

Initial $1,875 · Current $500 Reduced

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.    a) At the construction site employees performing framing work had not trained to recognize hazards related to ladders and the procedures to follow that would minimize the hazards.

Issued

Jul 11, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,751 · Current $500 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): Eye and face protective equipment were not used when machines or operations presented potential eye or face injury from physical agents.     a) At the construction site, employees performing roofing work were exposed to struck-by hazards while operating pneumatic nail guns without eye protection.    Ricky Jones was previously cited for a violation of this occupational safety and health standard or its equivalent standard 1926.102(a)(1), which was contained in OSHA inspection number 990088, citation number 1, item number 1, and was affirmed as a final order on October 29, 2014, with respect to a workplace located at 1109 Bell Plains Rd., Abilene, Texas 79562.

Issued

Jul 11, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,751 · Current $500 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(1): Where portable ladders were used for access to an upper landing surface and the ladder's length allows, the ladder side rails did not extend at least 3 feet (.9 m) above the upper landing surface being accessed:    a) At the construction site, employees engaged in roofing activities were exposed to fall hazards while using a ladder that did not extend at least three feet above the roof's landing.    Ricky Jones was previously cited for a violation of this occupational safety and health standard or its equivalent standard 1926.1053(b)(1), which was contained in OSHA inspection number 990088, citation number 1, item number 3, and was affirmed as a final order on October 29, 2014, with respect to a workplace located at 1109 Bell Plains Rd., Abilene, Texas 79562.