OSHA Inspection: RAMON LOPEZ

Issued

Sep 23, 2020

Abate by

Oct 20, 2020

Penalty

Initial $1,735 · Current $1,735

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.25(a): During the course of construction, alteration, or repairs,  debris was not kept cleared from work areas, passageways, and stairs, in and around buildings or other structures:  (a) On or about September 8, 2020 employees were performing framing-cornice operations were exposed to wooden construction debris with protruding nails at the jobsite.

Issued

Sep 23, 2020

Abate by

Oct 20, 2020

Penalty

Initial $1,735 · Current $1,735

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 September 8, 2020 employees were exposed falling and flying objects. Employees were not provided with protective helmets.

Issued

Sep 23, 2020

Abate by

Oct 20, 2020

Penalty

Initial $1,735 · Current $1,735

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): Employees shall be provided with eye and face protection equipment when machines or operations present potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents.  (a) On or about September employees were performing framing-cornice operations used pneumatic nail guns without the use of protective eyewear. Employees were exposed to eye injuries.

Issued

Sep 23, 2020

Abate by

Oct 20, 2020

Penalty

Initial $2,892 · Current $2,892

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) On or about September 8, 2020 employees were performing framing-cornice operations from a Werner pump jack scaffold and were exposed to a fall hazard of 14-feet to the ground below.

Issued

Sep 23, 2020

Abate by

Oct 20, 2020

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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 September 8, 2020 employees were performing framing-cornice operations from a Werner pump jack scaffold and were exposed to a fall hazard of 14-feet to the ground below.

Issued

Sep 23, 2020

Abate by

Oct 20, 2020

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(2): Employees working below a scaffold were not protected from falling tools, materials or equipment in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs (h)(2)(i)-(v) of this section:  (a) On or about September 8, 2020 employees were performing framing-cornice operations from a Werner pump jack scaffold and were exposed to a fall hazard of 14-feet to the ground below.

Issued

Sep 23, 2020

Abate by

Oct 20, 2020

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(j)(2): Poles were not secured to the structure by rigid triangular bracing or equivalent at the bottom, top, and other points as necessary:   (a) On or about September 8, 2020 employees were performing framing-cornice operations from a Werner pump jack scaffold and the poles were not secured to the structure by a rigid triangular bracing or equivalent. Employees were exposed to scaffold collapse hazards.

Issued

Sep 23, 2020

Abate by

Oct 20, 2020

Penalty

Initial $2,313 · Current $2,313

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1052(c)(1)(i): Stairways having four or more risers or rising more than 30 inches (76 cm), whichever is less, were not equipped with at least one handrail:   (a) On or about September 8, 2020,  on the staircase of the residential home, the employer did not ensure that stairways having four or more risers rising more than 30 inches were equipped with a stair rail system along each unprotected side or edge to protect employees from falling approximately 8- feet to the concrete floor below.