OSHA Inspection: ALLIANCE BUILDING GROUP, LLC

Issued

Mar 30, 2020

Abate by

Apr 22, 2020

Penalty

Initial $2,892 · Current $2,892

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.20(b)(1): The employer did not initiate and maintain programs necessary to ensure compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Standards.  A safety and health program with policy, hazard assessment, and site work rules was not developed and/or implemented at this job site.      a) On or about February 11, 2020 at the address of 210 E. Perry Street in Port Clinton, OH:  The employer did not have a plan or program to identify job site hazards which assists employees in maintaining a safe working environment.  Such programs would support the employer and employees in identifying and avoiding potential hazards such as falls during job site operations, decreasing the probability of employee injury and/or illness.

Issued

Mar 30, 2020

Abate by

Apr 22, 2020

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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.  a)       On or about February 11, 2020 at the address of 210 E. Perry Street in Port Clinton, OH:  The employer did not ensure one employee working from a JLG Aerial lift was trained in the recognition of hazards associated with this type of mobile scaffold. Fall hazards went unrecognized while employee performed demolition, remodeling gut rehab operations from the mobile scaffold.

Issued

Mar 30, 2020

Abate by

Apr 22, 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:  a)       On or about February 11, 2020 at the address of 210 E. Perry Street in Port Clinton, OH:  The employer did not ensure that employees had been trained in the appropriate use of fall protection such as, but not limited to, the use of personal fall arrest systems or alternative measures while performing demolition operations from an elevated surfaces.

Issued

Mar 30, 2020

Penalty

Initial $2,892 · Current $2,892

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.453(b)(2)(v): A body belt with lanyard attached to the boom or basket was not worn by employee(s) working from an aerial lift:  Note to paragraph (b)(2)(v):  As of January 1, 1998, subpart M of this part (1926.502(d)) provides that body belts are not acceptable as part of a personal fall arrest system. The use of a body belt in a tethering or in a restraint system is acceptable and is regulated under Sec. 1926.502(e).  a)       On or about February 11, 2020 at the address of 210 E. Perry Street in Port Clinton, OH:  The employer did not ensure an employee had donned and secured his personal fall arrest systems to a JLG Aerial Lift. The employee was working from a height of 14 feet while performing demolition work on a commercial structure.

Issued

Mar 30, 2020

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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.  a)  On or about February 11, 2020 at the address of 210 E. Perry Street in Port Clinton, OH:  The employer did not ensure an employee was protected from falls while performing demolition work on a commercial structure. The employees were exposed to a 14 foot fall to the ground below.