OSHA Inspection: WESTWIND CONTRACTING INC.

Issued

Oct 15, 2019

Abate by

Nov 8, 2019

Penalty

Initial $10,210 · Current $6,126 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 C.F.R. � 1926.21(b)(2): The employer did not instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his/her environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury:  On or about 4/24/2019, at 20351 Sheridan Street, Pembroke Pines, Florida, the employer failed to instruct employees in the recognition and avoidance of hazards relating to the installation of catch basins, drainage pipes and identification of signs for potential cave-ins for excavations, thus exposing employees to engulfment and cave-in hazards.

Issued

Oct 15, 2019

Abate by

Nov 8, 2019

Penalty

Initial $10,210 · Current $6,126 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1203(a): Before work begins, the employer did not ensure that a competent person identifies all confined spaces in which one or more of the employees are to enter and evaluates any permit required confined spaces.  On or about 04/24/2019, at 20351 Sheridan Street, Pembroke Pines, employees were exposed to an engulfment hazard while working in a catch basin that was not identified as a permit required confine space.

Issued

Oct 15, 2019

Abate by

Nov 8, 2019

Penalty

Initial $10,210 · Current $6,126 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 C.F.R. � 1926.1203(d): When the employer decided that employees it directs would enter a permit space, that employer did not have a written permit space program that complies with 1926.1204 implemented at the construction site:  On or about 4/24/2019, at 20351 Sheridan Street, Pembroke Pines, Florida, the employer allowed employees to conduct work in a catch basin that had a hole sealed with a Styrofoam insert / hole former, and did not develop and implement a permit space program, thus exposing employees to being engulfed by mud and water.

Issued

Oct 15, 2019

Abate by

Oct 21, 2019

Penalty

Initial $10,210 · Current $10,210

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1204(c)(3):  The employer did not develop and implement the means, procedures, and practices necessary for safe permit space entry operations by isolating the permit space and physical hazard(s) within the space:  On or about 04/24/2019, at 20351 Sheridan Street, Pembroke Pines, Florida, the employer failed to remove a Styrofoam insert / hole former from a catch basin, and insert a plywood board or metal plate over an opening to protect the space from mud and water entering the catch basin, while an employee was working inside, thus exposing the worker to an engulfment hazard.

Issued

Oct 15, 2019

Abate by

Nov 8, 2019

Penalty

Initial $7,293 · Current $6,126 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1204(c)(6): The employer did not provide and implement pedestrian, vehicle, or other barriers as necessary to protect entrants from external hazards:  On or about 04/24/2019, at 20351 Sheridan Street, Pembroke Pines, Florida, employees were exposed to being struck-by moving vehicles while working outside a catch basin that was not fully protected with barriers.

Issued

Oct 15, 2019

Abate by

Nov 8, 2019

Penalty

Initial $10,210 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 C.F.R. � 1926.1204(i): The employer did not develop and implement procedures for summoning rescue and emergency services (including procedures for summoning emergency assistance in the event of a failed non-entry rescue), for rescuing entrants from permit spaces, for providing necessary emergency services to rescued employees, and for preventing unauthorized personnel from attempting a rescue:  On or about 4/24/2019, at 20351 Sheridan Street, Pembroke Pines, Florida, employees were exposed to an engulfment hazard while attempting to perform rescue of an employee from a catch basin, when procedures for summoning rescue and emergency services and preventing unauthorized personnel from attempting a rescue were not available.

Issued

Oct 15, 2019

Abate by

Nov 8, 2019

Penalty

Initial $10,210 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 C.F.R. � 1926.1207(a): The employer did not provide training to each employee whose work is regulated by this standard, at no cost to the employee, and did not ensure that the employee possessed the understanding, knowledge, and skills necessary for the safe performance of duties assigned under this standard:  On or about 4/24/2019, at 20351 Sheridan Street, Pembroke Pines, Florida, employees who entered a 10-foot deep x 5-foot x 5-foot, catch basin with an opening that was covered with a Styrofoam insert/hole former were not trained in the recognition of hazards associated with permit required confined spaces, thus exposing the workers to the hazard of engulfment.

Issued

Oct 15, 2019

Abate by

Nov 8, 2019

Penalty

Initial $116,686 · Current $71,766 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.652(a)(1): Each employee in an excavation was not protected from cave-ins by an adequate protective system designed in accordance with 29 CFR 1926.652 (b) or (c):  On or about 04/29/2019, at 20351 Sheridan Street, Pembroke Pines, Florida, an employee was exposed to a cave-in hazard while working in an excavation with type-C soil, that was approximately 9 feet in depth x 12 feet in width x 15 feet in length and not protected from a potential cave-in.