OSHA Inspection: KENNETH COPT PLASTERING CORP

Issued

2020-06-23 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-07-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2313.00 · Current $1157.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): The employer did not develop, implement, and maintain at each workplace, a written hazard communication program which at least described how the criteria specified in paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) of this section for labels and other forms of warning, safety data sheets, and employee information and training will be met, and which also included the requirements specified in (e)(1)(i) and (e)(1)(ii): (Construction Reference 1926.59)    On or about 6/11/2020, at jobsite located at 9500 SW 61st Ct, Pinecrest, FL 33156, the employer did not develop and implement a written hazard communication program for employees who work with hazardous chemicals including, but not limited to, Titan America Stucco and Roof Tile Cement containing Portland cement a corrosive (with a pH of 11.5).

Issued

2020-06-23 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-07-01 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(1): Employers did not have a safety data sheet in the workplace for each hazardous chemical which they use: (Construction Reference 1926.59)  On or about 6/11/2010, at jobsite located at 9500 SW 61st Ct, Pinecrest, FL 33156, the employer did not have available safety data sheets (SDS) for employees exposed to a hazardous chemicals including, but not limited to, Titan America Stucco and Roof Tile Cement containing Portland cement a corrosive (with a pH of 11.5).

Issued

2020-06-23 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4048.00 · Current $2429.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1)(i): Each platform unit (e.g., scaffold plank, fabricated plank, fabricated deck, or fabricated platform) was not installed so that the space between adjacent units and the space between the platform and the uprights were no more than 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide, except where the employer can demonstrate that a wider space is necessary:    On or about 6/11/2010, at jobsite located at 9500 SW 61st Ct, Pinecrest, FL 33156, employees were exposed to the hazard of falling up to 18'-0" to ground level while working from tubular welded frame scaffolds that were not fully planked.

Issued

2020-06-23 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(5)(i): The end of a platform 10 feet or less in length, extended over its support more than 12 inches:   On or about 6/11/2020, at jobsite located at 9500 SW 61st Ct, Pinecrest, FL 33156, an employee worked from a scaffold platform which extended  over 56" over its support, which exposed employee to a fall hazard of 5'  and 18' approximately to residence balcony floor and ground level, respectively.

Issued

2020-06-23 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(7): On scaffolds where platforms are overlapped to create a long platform, the overlap did not occur only over supports:  On or about 6/11/2020, at jobsite located at 9500 SW 61st Ct, Pinecrest, FL 33156, two employees worked from scaffold platforms that overlapped without being supported, which exposed employees to a fall hazard of 5'  and 18' approximately to residence balcony floor and ground level, respectively.

Issued

2020-06-23 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4048.00 · Current $2429.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames, and uprights did not bear on base plates and mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:    On or about 6/11/2020, at jobsite located at 9500 SW 61st Ct, Pinecrest, FL 33156, employees were exposed to the hazard of falling up to 18'-0" to ground level while working from tubular welded frame scaffolds whose frames were placed over  concrete but lacked base plates.

Issued

2020-06-23 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4048.00 · Current $2429.00 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:      On or about 6/11/2020, at jobsite located at 9500 SW 61st Ct, Pinecrest, FL 33156, employees were exposed to the hazard of falling up to 18'-0" to ground level while working from tubular welded frame scaffolds that lacked a safe means of access.

Issued

2020-06-23 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4048.00 · Current $2429.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(7): Scaffolds were not erected, moved, dismantled, or altered, by trained and experienced employees under the supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection, moving, dismantling or alteration:; Such activities were not performed only by experienced and trained employees selected for such work by the competent person.    On or about 6/11/2020, at jobsite located at 9500 SW 61st Ct, Pinecrest, FL 33156, employees were exposed to a fall hazard while plastering from tubular welded frame scaffolds that were erected without supervision, as evidenced by, among other conditions; scaffold was not fully planked; scaffold platforms were not adequately supported; scaffolds lacked of cross braces, etc.

Issued

2020-06-23 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4048.00 · Current $2834.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Employees on scaffolds more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level by fall protection established in paragraphs (g)(1)(i)-(vii) of this section:      a. On or about 6/11/2020, at jobsite located at 9500 SW 61st Ct, Pinecrest, FL 33156, two employees were exposed to the hazard of falling 18'-0" to ground level while working from scaffolds without being protected from falling.       b. On or about 6/11/2020, at jobsite located at 9500 SW 61st Ct, Pinecrest, FL 33156, an employee was exposed to the hazard of falling 12'-0" to ground level while working from scaffolds without being protected from falling.

Issued

2020-06-23 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4048.00 · Current $2429.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(c)(2): Tubular welded frames and panels were not braced by cross, horizontal, or diagonal braces, or combination thereof, which would have secured vertical members together laterally:    On or about 6/11/2020, at jobsite located at 9500 SW 61st Ct, Pinecrest, FL 33156, employees were exposed to the hazard of falling up to 18'-0" to ground level while working from a tubular welded frame scaffolds that lacked cross braces in the portion facing wall.

Issued

2020-06-23 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-06-29 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2892.00 · Current $1446.00 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 or about 6/11/2010, at jobsite located at 9500 SW 61st Ct, Pinecrest, FL 33156, the employer did not report a work-related incident that took place on 6/11/2020, which resulted in an employee hospitalization after suffering multiple fractures.