OSHA Inspection: WATERSIDE CONSTRUCTION LLC

Issued

May 26, 2020

Penalty

Initial $3,817 · Current $1,500 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:                                                                                                                A) Building Exterior left side: An employees was exposed to eye/face injuries while using an angle grinder without the use of eye and face protection, on or about 3/12/20    b) Building Exterior left side: Employees were exposed to eye and face injuries while using mortar cement to lay brick from a pipe scaffold. Employees were not using any type of eye and face protection, on or about 3/12/20      c) Building Exterior right side: An employee was exposed to eye and face injuries while using mortar cement to lay brick from a pipe scaffold. Employee was not using any type of eye and face protection, on or about 3/12/20

Issued

May 26, 2020

Penalty

Initial $3,817 · Current $2,500 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.303(b)(1): Grinding machines were not equipped with safety guards in conformance with the requirements of ANSI B7.1-1970, Safety Code for the Use, Care, and Protection of abrasive wheels, and paragraph (d) of this section.    a) Building Exterior left side: An employee was using an angle grinder without a guard while cutting bricks, on or about 3/12/20

Issued

May 26, 2020

Penalty

Initial $4,453 · Current $2,700 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)      a) Front of Building: Employees were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 8 feet while working on a scaffold that was not fully planked, on or about 3/12/20

Issued

May 26, 2020

Penalty

Initial $4,453 · Current $2,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2)(i): Footings shall be level, sound, rigid, and capable of supporting the loaded scaffold without settling or displacement.    a) Building Front left side: Employees were exposed to a fall hazards while engaged in brick laying activities from a pipe scaffold that the footing was not level, sound, rigid, and capable of supporting the loaded scaffold without settling or displacement, on or about 3/12/20    b) Building Front right side: An employees were exposed to a fall hazards while engaged in brick laying activities from a pipe scaffold that the footing was not level, sound, rigid, and capable of supporting the loaded scaffold without settling or displacement, on or about 3/12/20

Issued

May 26, 2020

Penalty

Initial $3,817 · Current $1,500 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1): When scaffold platforms were 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 other scaffold, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.      a) Building Exterior left and right side: Employees were using pipe scaffold frames and cross braces to access the scaffold, exposing employees to a fall of approximately 8 feet to the ground surface, on or about 3/12/20.