OSHA Inspection: SOUTH EUCLID CEMENT CONTRACTORS, INC.

Issued

2020-04-01 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-04-13 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4048.00 · Current $2016.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(a)(2): The employer did not determine if the walking/working surfaces on which its employees were to work on, had the strength and structure integrity to support employees safely.     On or about December 6 2020, an employee was exposed to a fall of approximately 20 feet while performing concrete replacement on an existing parking garage located at 1277 Hamilton, Cleveland, Ohio 44114.  The employee was using a Bobcat X325 excavator with an attached jack hammer to remove the existing concrete and the employer did not ensure that the working surface had the structural integrity to support the employee safely.  The concrete failed causing the employee to fall through two levels of the parking garage.

Issued

2020-04-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2892.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1904.39(a)(2): The employer did not report within 24-hours a work-related incident resulting in in-patient hospitalization, amputation or the loss of an eye.    On December 6, 2020, the employer did not report the in-patient hospitalization of an employee who sustained several broken vertebras from a fall accident within 24 hours. The employee was hospitalized for 6 days for the accident and never returned to work. OSHA was not notified until December 9, 2020, when the accident was reported by a local news organization, the employer never reported the accident.