OSHA Inspection: ALBERT GREEN PLASTERING, INC.

Issued

Mar 17, 2020

Penalty

Initial $2,892 · Current $2,892

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds were not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports as specified in paragraphs 1926.451(b)(1)(i)-(ii):  At location: On or about 10/29/19 and at times prior, the employer exposed employees to a fall hazard of approximately 24 feet, in that employees were applying stucco on a commercial building from a 4-tier scaffold that lack planking.

Issued

Mar 17, 2020

Penalty

Initial $2,892 · Current $2,892

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(1)(i): Guys, ties, and braces were not installed at locations where horizontal members support both inner and outer legs:    At location: On or about 10/29/19 and at times prior, the employer exposed employees to a fall hazard of approximately 24 feet, in that employees were applying stucco on a commercial building from a 4-tier scaffold that lack guys, ties, and braces.

Issued

Mar 17, 2020

Penalty

Initial $2,892 · Current $2,892

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames,  or uprights did not bear on base plates, mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:  At location: On or about 10/29/19 and at times prior, the employer exposed employees to a fall hazard of approximately 24 feet, in that employees were applying stucco from a 4-tier scaffold that lack mud sills.

Issued

Mar 17, 2020

Penalty

Initial $2,892 · Current $2,892

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:  At Location: On or about 10/29/19 and at times prior, the employer exposed employees to fall hazards of approximately 24 feet, in that employees were applying stucco on a commercial building from a 4-tier scaffold that lack an access to and from the scaffold.

Issued

Mar 17, 2020

Penalty

Initial $2,892 · Current $2,892

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(4)(i): Guardrail systems were not installed along all open sides and ends of platforms:  At Location: On or about 10/29/19 and at times prior, the employer exposed employees to fall hazards of approximately 24 feet, in that employees were applying stucco on a commercial building from a 4-tier scaffold that did not have guardrails installed along several open sides and ends of platforms.

Issued

Mar 17, 2020

Penalty

Initial $2,892 · Current $2,892

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(2): Tubular welded frames and panels were not braced by cross, horizontal, or diagonal braces, or combination thereof, which would have secured vertical members together laterally:  At Location: On or about 10/29/19 and at times prior, the employer exposed employees to a fall hazard of approximately 24 feet, in that employees applying stucco on a commercial building from a 4-tier scaffold that lacked cross braces on several frames of the scaffold.

Issued

Mar 17, 2020

Penalty

Initial $2,313 · Current $2,313

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(1): Each employee on a walking/working surface with an unprotected side or edge which was 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above a lower level was not protected from falling by the use of guardrail systems, safety net systems, or personal fall arrest systems:  At Location: On or about 10/29/19 and the days prior, the employer exposed the employees to a fall hazard of approximately 11 feet, in that employees were leaping onto the 2nd tier of the scaffold through a 2nd floor window from inside a commercial building without any fall protection equipment.