OSHA Inspection: JAVIER SOTELO LEON

Issued

2019-09-20 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-10-25 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $319.00 · Current $319.00

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:  1860 Barrington Drive, York Pennsylvania - The employer did not certify that the citations had been abated within 10 days of the abatement date, on or about August 21, 2019.   Abatement certification required within 10 days after abatement date. The certification shall include a statement that abatement is complete, date and method of abatement, and states employees and their representatives were informed of this abatement.

Issued

2019-07-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-08-07 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2842.00 · Current $2842.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.20(b)(2): The employer did not initiate and maintain programs which provided for frequent and regular inspections of the job site, materials and equipment to be made by a competent person:  (a) Roof - The employer did not have a competent person involved in the job site in that none of the employees who worked on the site on April 4, 2019 inspected the job site, identified predictable fall and struck-by hazards, and took immediate actions to correct the hazards.  As a result, employees did residential roofing work on a two-story single-family home without using any fall protection, exposing the employees the hazard of falling to a lower level.  In addition, each employees did not wear eye protection when using pneumatic nailers to attach shingles to the roof, exposing employees to the hazard of getting struck-by ricocheting nails.  Abatement certification required within 10 days after abatement date. The certification shall include a statement that abatement is complete, date and method of abatement, and state employees and their representatives were informed of this abatement.

Issued

2019-07-12 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2415.00 · Current $2415.00

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) Roof - Employees used pneumatic nailers to install new shingles, and the employer did not ensure that each employee wore eye protection equipment, exposing the employees to a struck-by hazard from ricocheting nails, on or about April 4, 2019.  Corrected during the inspection.

Issued

2019-07-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-08-07 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2842.00 · Current $2842.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13): Each employee engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels were not protected by guardrail systems, safety net systems, or personal fall arrest systems, nor were employees provided with an alternative fall protection measure under another provision of paragraph 1926.501(b):  (a) Roof - Employees did roofing work, including installing new shingles, on the two-story single-family home, which had a first floor roof eave height of 9 feet 7 inches and a second floor roof eave height of 18 feet 1 inch.  The employees did not use guardrail systems, safety net systems, or personal fall arrest systems for fall protection nor did they use an alternative fall protection measure.  Instead, employees wore climbing harnesses equipped with rope clamp ascension devices and over the attached garage, had ropes available for connecting the climbing harnesses to the ropes.  However, an employee installing the ridge cap on the house's main roof did not have an anchor point and did not tie off, and two employees working on the garage roof tied off to the available ropes but not at all times and the ropes had lengths that would allow the two employees to fall off the rake edges of the roof, exposing the employees to the hazard of falling from the roofs to the ground below, on or about April 4, 2019.  Abatement certification required within 10 days after abatement date. The certification shall include a statement that abatement is complete, date and method of abatement, and state employees and their representatives were informed of this abatement.