OSHA Inspection: EFREN HERNANDEZ

Issued

Jul 8, 2020

Penalty

Initial $3,470 · Current $3,470

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) On or about 05/07/2020 - 1412 Mountain Laurel Lane, Moody, AL, employee(s) exposed to falling bricks, tools, and other construction-related materials were not provided hard hats.

Issued

Jul 8, 2020

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(1): Each employee on a scaffold was not provided with additional protection from falling hand tools, debris, and other small objects through the installation of toe boards, screens, guardrail systems, or through the erection of debris nets, catch platforms, or canopy structures that contain or deflect the falling objects.  For falling objects too large, heavy or massive to be contained or deflected, the employer did not place and secure such potential falling objects away from the edge of the surface from which they could fall:  (a) On or about 05/07/2020 - 1412 Mountain Laurel Lane, Moody, AL, employee(s) working from fabricated frame scaffolding were exposed to falling bricks, tools, and other construction-related materials being used and/or stored on the upper levels.

Issued

Jul 8, 2020

Penalty

Initial $3,470 · Current $3,470

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds shall be fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guard rail supports:  (a) On or about 05/07/2020 - 1412 Mountain Laurel Lane, Moody, AL, employee(s) were exposed to fall hazards while working on a scaffold due to its planking having spaces greater than 1 inch on the scaffolding system with a height of approximately 13 feet, 9 inches from the working surface to the ground.

Issued

Jul 8, 2020

Penalty

Initial $3,470 · Current $3,470

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames,  or uprights did not bear on base plates, mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:  (a) On or about 05/07/2020 - 1412 Mountain Laurel Lane, Moody, AL, scaffolding leg supports did not have base plates.

Issued

Jul 8, 2020

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2)(i): Footings were not level, sound, rigid, and capable of supporting the loaded scaffold without settling or displacement:  (a) On or about 05/07/2020 - 1412 Mountain Laurel Lane, Moody, AL, the employer did not ensure the footings for scaffolds used to perform masonry work were level.

Issued

Jul 8, 2020

Penalty

Initial $2,313 · Current $2,313

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.  Cross braces were used as a means of access:  (a) On or about 05/07/2020 - 1412 Mountain Laurel Lane, Moody, AL, employee(s) were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 13 feet, 9 inches to the ground while climbing end frames of the fabricated frame scaffolding system.

Issued

Jul 8, 2020

Penalty

Initial $3,470 · Current $3,470

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(4)(i): Guardrail systems were not installed along all open sides and ends of platforms:  (a) On or about 05/07/2020 - 1412 Mountain Laurel Lane, Moody, AL employees were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 13 feet, 9 inches while working from a fabricated frame scaffolding system where the sides and ends of the platforms were not guarded.

Issued

Jul 8, 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 05/07/2020 - 1412 Mountain Laurel Lane, Moody, AL, employees working from a scaffolding system to perform masonry work had not been trained.

Issued

Jul 8, 2020

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): Employer had not developed or implemented a written hazard communication program included the requirements outlined in 29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1)(i) and (e)(1)(ii):   (a) On or about 05/07/2020 - 412 Mountain Laurel Lane, Moody, AL, a hazard communication program had not been developed and implemented for brick masons working with hazardous chemicals such as, but not limited to, Type N Masonry Cement.