OSHA Inspection: AC CONSTRUCTION SERVICES

Issued

Dec 23, 2019

Abate by

Jan 6, 2020

Penalty

Initial $4,546 · Current $4,546

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): Employees were not provided with eye and face protection equipment when machines or operations present potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents:  a.) On or about August 27, 2019, on the south west side of the jobsite; employee was observed using a portable masonry saw to cut bricks without eye protection.

Issued

Dec 23, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,220 · Current $3,220

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolding was not fully planked or decked:  a.) On or about August 27, 2019, on the south west side of the jobsite; employee was observed crossing from one scaffold to another that was not fully planked while cutting brick with a portable masonry saw.

Issued

Dec 23, 2019

Abate by

Jan 6, 2020

Penalty

Initial $3,031 · Current $3,031

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames, and uprights shall bear on base plates and mud sills or other adequate firm foundation.  a) On or about August 27, 2019, on the southwest side of the job site; employees utilized a tubular scaffold that did not bear on base plates, mudsills, or other adequate firm foundation while installing a brick façade at a height of approximately 14 feet.

Issued

Dec 23, 2019

Abate by

Jan 6, 2020

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2)(ii): Unstable objects were used to support scaffolds or platform units:  a)On or about August 27, 2019, on the southwest side of the jobsite: employees utilized tubular scaffolding on scrap wood stacked three boards high while installing a brick façade at a height of approximately 14 feet.

Issued

Dec 23, 2019

Penalty

Initial $3,864 · Current $3,864

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1): Where scaffold platforms were more than 2 feet above or below a point of access, portable ladders, hook-on ladders, attachable ladders, stair towers, stairway-type ladders, ramps, walkways, integral prefabricated scaffold access, or direct access from another scaffold, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used for access:  a) On or about August 27, 2019, on the southwest side of the jobsite; employees utilized a tubular scaffold that did not have safe means of access or egress, while installing a brick façade at a height of approximately 14 feet.

Issued

Dec 23, 2019

Penalty

Initial $1,932 · Current $1,932

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 August 27, 2019, on the south west side of the jobsite; employees utilized tubular scaffold that did not have toe boards to prevent falling of tools or materials, while installing a brick façade at a height of approximately 14 feet.