OSHA Inspection: URBANO GONZALEZ CONSTRUCTION LLC

Issued

Oct 9, 2019

Abate by

Oct 18, 2019

Penalty

Initial $2,842 · Current $1,400 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2)(i): Footings were not level, sound, rigid, and capable of supporting the loaded scaffold without settling or displacement:     On or about July 10, 2019, at the job site employees were observed working from a 3-tier scaffold.  The scaffolds legs were not resting on sound, rigid, footing solid footings. Employees were exposed to fall and struck by hazards.

Issued

Oct 9, 2019

Abate by

Oct 18, 2019

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:   On or about July 1, 2019, at the job site employees were observed scaling on the scaffolding frames as a means to access the scaffolds, no ladder was provided.  Employees were exposed fall hazard.

Issued

Oct 9, 2019

Penalty

Initial $1,705 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees were not protected by protective helmets while working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or from falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns:     On or about July 10, 2019, at the job site employees were observed not wearing hard hat while working where there was a possibility of head injury  hazards from elevated objects.

Issued

Oct 9, 2019

Abate by

Oct 18, 2019

Penalty

Initial $5,683 · Current $2,800 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.       On or about July 10, 2019, at the jobsite employees were observed working on the third level of a 3-tier scaffold approximately 18 feet high.  The scaffold did not have guardrails provided and the employees were not wearing personal fall arrest systems.  Employees were exposed to fall hazards.       Urbano Gonzalez Construction LLC was previously cited for a violation of this occupational safety and health standard or its equivalent standard, 29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1), which was contained in OSHA inspection number 1394690, citation number 1, item number 1, and was affirmed as a final order on June 3, 2019 with a final abatement date of April 18, 2019, with respect to a workplace hazard at 400 NE 50th St., Oklahoma City, OK 73015.