OSHA Inspection: TMZ CONSTRUCTION LLC

Issued

May 15, 2019

Penalty

Initial $2,273 · Current $1,477 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): The employer shall ensure that each affected employee uses 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) Building Exterior: An employee was exposed to eye/face injuries while applying stucco. Employee was not protected with any type of eye/face protection, on or about 5/9/2019

Issued

May 15, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,978 · Current $2,586 Reduced

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) Building Exterior: An employee was exposed to an 12 foot fall hazard while applying stucco from a tubular welded frame scaffold with missing planks. Scaffold was not fully decked or planked between front and uprights, on or about 5/9/2019

Issued

May 15, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,978 · Current $2,586 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(1): Supported scaffolds with a height to base width (including outrigger supports, if used) ratio of more than four to one (4:1) were not restrained from tipping by guying, tying, bracing, or equivalent means, as set forth in subparagraphs (i) - (iii) of this paragraph.  a) Building Exterior: An employee was engaged in stucco activities from a pipe scaffold that was not restrained from tipping by guying ,tying, bracing or equivalent means, on or about 5/9/2019

Issued

May 15, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,978 · Current $2,586 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.   a) Building Exterior: A proper means of access was not provided for the scaffold system. Thereby exposing employees to a fall hazard, on or about 5/9/2019

Issued

May 15, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,978 · Current $2,586 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level.  a) Building Exterior: An employee was exposed to a 12' fall hazard while applying stucco from a pipe scaffold that was not provided with a guardrail system or other means of fall protection, on or about 5/9/2019

Issued

May 15, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,978 · Current $2,586 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(b)(3): On straight run scaffolds, longitudinal bracing across the inner and outer rows of posts were not installed diagonally in both directions, and did not extend from the base of the end posts upward to the top of the scaffold at approximately a 45 degree angle. On scaffolds whose length is greater than their height, such bracing were not repeated beginning at least at every fifth post. On scaffolds whose length is less than their height, such bracing were not installed from the base of the end posts upward to the opposite end posts, and then in alternating directions until reaching the top of the scaffold. Bracing were not installed as close as possible to the intersection of the bearer and post or runner and post.   a) Building Exterior: An employee was working on a scaffold that was missing the inner cross braces along the entire pipe scaffold length, on or about 5/9/2019

Issued

May 15, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,978 · Current $2,586 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(4): Ladder(s) were used for purposes other than the purpose for which they were designed:  a) Building Exterior: Stepladder was being used for other than the purposes for which it was  designed. An employee was using the top step of a stepladder to supper a platform, on or about 5/9/2019