OSHA Inspection: WILLIAMS COLLEGE

Issued

2020-02-18 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-03-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9639.00 · Current $4820.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(7): Scaffolds had not been erected, moved, dismantled or altered only under the supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection, moving, dismantling, or alteration.    34 Spring Street, Williamstown, MA : On or about December 10, 2019  two employees were working with a Genie AWP-40S mobile elevated work platform (scaffold) and it had not been erected or dismantled under the supervision of a competent person to ensure that stabilizer pads were not adjusted or lowered at any times the platform was elevated or occupied.      Specific abatement documentation that this violation has been corrected must be provided within 10 days of the abatement in accordance with 29 CFR 1903.19(d)(1).

Issued

2020-02-18 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-03-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9639.00 · Current $4820.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(b)(2): The employer did not have each employee who was involved in erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, maintaining, or inspecting a scaffold trained by a competent person to recognize any hazards associated with the correct procedures for erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, inspecting, and maintaining the type of scaffold in question.    34 Spring Street, Williamstown, MA : On or about December 10, 2019  two employees had not been trained by a competent person in the erecting, dismantling, moving, operating repairing, maintaining or inspecting of the mobile elevated work platform (Genie AWP 40S) that they were using. Among other specific scaffold training deficiencies, the hazard of changing the height of the Genie AWP 40S stabilizer pads while the basket was still raised and occupied by an employee was not communicated.     Specific abatement documentation that this violation has been corrected must be provided within 10 days of the abatement in accordance with 29 CFR 1903.19(d)(1).