OSHA Inspection: JAIME RANGEL GARCIA

Issued

2019-08-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-08-29 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2842.00 · Current $1400.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.59: The employer had not developed a written hazard communication program in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.1200 as incorporated by reference:    (a) On or about 07/11/2019 - 5607 Cedar Creek Park Drive, Bessemer, AL, the employer had not developed a written program for employees mixing CEMEX Citadel Colonial Buff Type N Portland cement.

Issued

2019-08-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-08-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3410.00 · Current $1700.00 Reduced

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 07/11/2019 - 5607 Cedar Creek Park Drive, Bessemer, AL, employees working on the ground and exposed to falling objects such as tools and brick were not provided a hard hat.

Issued

2019-08-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-08-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1705.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): Employees were not provided with eye and face protection equipment when machines or operations presented potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents:    (a) On or about 07/11/2019 - 5607 Cedar Creek Park Drive, Bessemer, AL, employees handling CEMEX masonry cement were not wearing safety glasses.

Issued

2019-08-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-08-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3410.00 · Current $1700.00 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) On or about 07/11/2019 - 5607 Cedar Creek Park Drive, Bessemer, AL, employees installing brick were working from scaffolding at approximately 11 feet above the ground that was not fully planked at each level.

Issued

2019-08-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-08-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3410.00 · Current $1700.00 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.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access:    (a) On or about 07/11/2019 - 5607 Cedar Creek Park Drive, Bessemer, AL, employees were climbing scaffolding frames and not provided a safe means of access.

Issued

2019-08-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-08-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3978.00 · Current $2100.00 Reduced

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:    (a) On or about 07/11/2019 - 5607 Cedar Creek Park Drive, Bessemer, AL, employees installing brick on a residential home at approximately 11 feet above the ground were not provided fall protection.

Issued

2019-08-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-08-26 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(a): The employer did not have each employee who performed work while on a scaffold trained by a person qualified in the subject matter to recognize the hazards associated with the type of scaffold being used and to understand the procedures to control or minimize those hazards:  (a) On or about 07/11/2019 - 5607 Cedar Creek Park Drive, Bessemer, AL, employees working from scaffolding while installing brick did not recognize the fall hazard.