OSHA Inspection: QUALITY TOP SERVICE, LLC.

Issued

Jun 12, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,410 · Current $3,410

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns, were not protected by protective helmets:  a)  On or about 05/02/19 - #10 Amber Drive, Hoover, AL, employees were not provided head protection while working underneath brick installation activities.

Issued

Jun 12, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,410 · Current $3,410

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, chemical, or radiation agents:  a)  On or about 05/02/19 - #10 Amber Drive, Hoover, AL, an employee was operating a Dewalt angle grinder without eye protection.

Issued

Jun 12, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,410 · Current $3,410

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) On or about 05/02/19 - #10 Amber Drive, Hoover, AL, employees installing brick approximately 14 feet above the ground below were working from scaffolding that was not fully planked at the working platform.

Issued

Jun 12, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,410 · Current $3,410

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:  a) On or about 05/02/19 - #10 Amber Drive, Hoover, AL, employees installing brick approximately 14 feet above the ground below were using the frame of a supported scaffold to access the working platform.

Issued

Jun 12, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,978 · Current $3,978

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet (3.1m) above a lower level was not protected from falling to that lower level by fall protection established in accordance with paragraphs (g)(1)(i) through (vii) of this section:  a) On or about 05/02/19 - #10 Amber Drive, Hoover, AL, employees installing brick approximately 14 feet above the ground below were working from scaffolding that was missing a guardrail system.

Issued

Jun 12, 2019

Penalty

Initial $2,273 · Current $2,273

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(1): Each employee on a scaffold was not provided with additional protection from falling hand tools, debris, and other small objects through the installation of toeboards, screens, guardrail systems, or through the erection of debris nets, catch platforms, or canopy structures that contain or deflect the falling objects.  For falling objects too large, heavy or massive to be contained or deflected, the employer did not place and secure such potential falling objects away from the edge of the surface from which they could fall:  a) On or about 05/02/19 - #10 Amber Drive, Hoover, AL, employees installing brick approximately 14 feet above  the ground below were working from scaffolding without toeboards installed.

Issued

Jun 12, 2019

Abate by

Jun 24, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,410 · Current $3,410

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) On or about 05/02/2019 - #10 Amber Drive, Hoover, AL, employees did not recognize and avoid fall hazards.

Issued

Jun 12, 2019

Abate by

Jul 1, 2019

Penalty

Initial $319 · Current $319

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.59:  An employer engaged in construction activities did not comply with the requirements set forth in Part 1910, Section 1200, Hazard Communication:  a) On or about 05/02/19 - #10 Amber Drive, Hoover, AL, employees were exposed to chemicals such as, but not limited to, MVIS Thin Brick Mortar, and a written program had not been developed.