OSHA Inspection: E&M QUALITY CARPENTRY CORP.

Issued

Jan 22, 2020

Penalty

Initial $2,313 · Current $1,379 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) Exterior, On the scaffold and the ground: Employees were exposed to head injuries while working below framing activities. The employees were not protected by hard hats or protective helmets, on or about October 2nd, 2019.

Issued

Jan 22, 2020

Penalty

Initial $2,313 · Current $1,379 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1):       Eye and face protective equipment were not used when machines or operations presented potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents.                                                                                               A) Exterior, On the roof and the scaffold: Employees were exposed to eye/face injuries while using pneumatic nail guns and were not protected with any type of eye/face protection, on or about October 2nd, 2019.

Issued

Jan 22, 2020

Penalty

Initial $4,048 · Current $2,414 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1):      When scaffold platforms are 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 another scaffold, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface shall be used. Crossbraces shall not be used as a means of access.      A) Exterior, On the scaffold: An employee was exposed to fall hazards of approximately 23 feet while working on a ladder jack scaffold was not provided with safe acceptable means of access, on or about October 2nd, 2019.

Issued

Jan 22, 2020

Penalty

Initial $4,048 · Current $2,414 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1):     Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet above a lower level was not protected from falling to that lower level:    A) Exterior, On the scaffold: An employee was exposed to fall hazards of approximately 23 feet while working on a scaffold that was not protected by a complete guardrail system or another means of fall protection in place, on or about October 2nd, 2019.

Issued

Jan 22, 2020

Penalty

Initial $4,048 · Current $2,414 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13):    Each employee(s) engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels were not protected by guardrail systems, safety net system, or personal fall arrest system, nor were employee(s) provided with an alternative fall protection measure under another provision of paragraph 1926.501 (b):       A) Roof of the structure: An employee was exposed to fall hazards of approximately 27 feet while engaged in framing work on the roof of a structure without a means of fall protection in place, on or about October 2nd, 2019.