OSHA Inspection: DIEGO GUITTEREZ

Issued

2019-05-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1449.00 · Current $1449.00

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:  On or about May 9, 2019; and at times prior thereto; at a commercial construction site, employees performing stucco work were not provided a protective helmet while working underneath employees above a higher scaffold platform level. The employees were exposed to being struck by objects and/or tools falling from a height greater than 8 to 16 feet.

Issued

2019-05-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2415.00 · Current $2415.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(a)(6): Scaffolds were not designed by a qualified person:  On or about May 9, 2019, employees installing stucco from (2) tier tubular welded frame scaffolds that was not designed by a qualified person. The employees were exposed to a fall hazard of up to 16 feet to the ground below.  Employees performing stucco installation from tubular welded frame scaffolds that were not designed by a qualified person. The scaffolds used were not fully assembled, did not guardrails, toe boards or a ladder to access the scaffold system.

Issued

2019-05-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2415.00 · Current $2415.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Employees on scaffolds more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level by fall protection established in paragraphs (g)(1)(i)-(vii) of this section:  On or about May 9, 2019, at a commercial construction site, masonry employees were applying stucco from a (2) tier tubular welded frame scaffold from the 2nd level of the scaffold without fall protection. The employees were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 12 feet to the ground below.

Issued

2019-05-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of the scaffold was not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports:  On or about May 9, 2019, at a commercial construction site, employees were on the 2nd level of a tubular welded frame scaffold applying stucco. The scaffold platform was not fully planked, exposing the employees to a fall hazard of approximately (16) feet to the ground below.

Issued

2019-05-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2415.00 · Current $2415.00

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. Crossbraces were used as a means of access.  On or about May 9, 2019, at a commercial construction site, masonry employees applying stucco from a (2) tier tubular welded frame scaffold were not provided with a ladder or other safe means of access. The employees were exposed to fall hazards of approximately up to (16) feet to the ground below.