OSHA Inspection: LORENZO CONSTRUCTION CORP.

Issued

2020-08-24 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-09-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4048.00 · Current $2024.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(1)(ii): Guys, ties, and/or braces were not installed  according to the scaffold manufacturer's recommendations or at the closest horizontal member to the 4:1 height and repeated vertically at locations of horizontal members every 20 feet (56.1 m) or less thereafter for scaffolds 3 feet ((0.91 m) wide or less, and every 26 feet (7.9 m) or less thereafter for scaffolds greater than 3 feet (0.91m) wide.  a)  Intersection 42nd St and Avenue E Bayonne, NJ, 07002  Employees were engaged in masonry activities from a welded tubular frame scaffold at heights of 40 feet without guys, ties and or braces being installed on scaffold.    Violation observed on or about 06/19/2020

Issued

2020-08-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4048.00 · Current $2024.00 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.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access.  a)  Intersection 42nd St and Avenue E Bayonne, NJ, 07002  Employee (s) performing construction operations from a fabricated frame scaffold were using the crossbraces to access the balcony working areas, exposing employees to fall hazards of approximately 40 feet.   Violation occurred on or about 06/19/2020

Issued

2020-08-24 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-09-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4048.00 · Current $2024.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(4)(iii): When midrails, screens, mesh, intermediate vertical members, solid panels, or equivalent structural members are used, they were not installed between the top edge of the guardrail system and the scaffold platform.  a)  Intersection 42nd St and Avenue E Bayonne, NJ, 07002  Employee (s) performing construction operations from a fabricated frame scaffold which did not contain midrails and were thereby exposed to fall hazards of approximately 40 feet.   Violation occurred on or about 06/19/2020

Issued

2020-08-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4048.00 · Current $2024.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(15): Each employee on a walking/working surface 6 feet (1.8 meters) or more above lower levels was not protected from falling by a guardrail system, safety net system, or personal fall arrest system:  a)  Intersection 42nd St and Avenue E Bayonne, NJ, 07002  Workers performing construction activities on a balcony in close proximity to an unprotected edge without any means of fall protection, thereby exposing workers to an approximate 40ft fall hazard.  Violation occurred on or about 06/19/2020