OSHA Inspection: PALACIOS MARINE & INDUSTRIAL COATINGS, INC.

Issued

Feb 10, 2020

Abate by

Feb 28, 2020

Penalty

Initial $13,494 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.20(f)(1): 29 CFR 1926.20(f)(1): The employer did not provide personal protective equipment to each employee required to use the personal protective equipment:   At this establishment, the employer did not provide personal protective equipment to each employee required to use the personal protective equipment, when employees were assigned to work with and around scaffold, fall hazards and hazardous materials.

Issued

Feb 10, 2020

Abate by

Feb 28, 2020

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.95(b): Where employees provide their own protective equipment, the employer did not assure its adequacy, including proper maintenance, and sanitation of such equipment:   At this establishment, the employer did not assure that employee-owned equipment was adequate and safe to use, when employees were assigned to work with and around scaffold, and exposed to fall hazards and hazardous materials.

Issued

Feb 10, 2020

Abate by

Feb 21, 2020

Penalty

Initial $13,494 · Current $0 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):   At this establishment, employees worked from a scaffold which was not fully planked.

Issued

Feb 10, 2020

Abate by

Feb 21, 2020

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(4): Part(s) of a scaffold that were damaged or weakened, such that the scaffold's strength was less than that required by paragraph (a) of this section, were not immediately repaired, replaced, braced to meet those provisions, nor removed from service until repaired:   At this establishment, employees worked from a scaffold with damaged and broken scaffold components such as planks.

Issued

Feb 10, 2020

Abate by

Feb 21, 2020

Penalty

Initial $13,494 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(3): Scaffolds and scaffold components were not inspected for visible defects by a competent person before each work shift, and after any occurrence which could affect a scaffold's structural integrity:   At this establishment, the employer failed to inspect the scaffold and its components for defects and missing parts.

Issued

Feb 10, 2020

Abate by

Feb 21, 2020

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(7): Scaffolds were not erected, moved, dismantled, or altered, by trained and experienced employees under the supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection, moving, dismantling or alteration; Such activities were not performed only by experienced and trained employees selected for such work by the competent person:   At this establishment, employees were exposed to fall hazard while working from a scaffold. The employer did not provide a trained and experienced competent person for scaffold erection and dismantling.

Issued

Feb 10, 2020

Abate by

Feb 28, 2020

Penalty

Initial $13,494 · Current $0 Reduced

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:   At this establishment, employees were exposed to fall hazards when working above lower level. The employer did not provide training to employees to recognize the hazards associated with erection of the scaffolds.

Issued

Feb 10, 2020

Abate by

Feb 28, 2020

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.503(a)(1): The employer did not provide a training program for each employee potentially exposed to fall hazards to enable each employee to recognize the hazards of falling and the procedures to be followed in order to minimize these hazards:   At this establishment, employees were exposed to fall hazard when working from a scaffold. The employer did not provide a training to each employee to recognize fall hazards associated with erection of the scaffolds.