OSHA Inspection: EMMANUEL QUALITY, LLC

Issued

Jan 29, 2021

Penalty

Initial $4,096 · Current $4,096

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:  Star Metals Apartment/Office Building located at 1041 Howell Mill Road NW, Atlanta, GA 30312, 8th floor: On August 4, 2020, the employer did not ensure the mobile fabricated frame scaffold was erected, moved, dismantled, or altered under the direct supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection. Employees worked from mobile fabricated scaffold platforms that extended past the base of the caster wheel supports creating a tip-over/fall hazard to the lower level.

Issued

Jan 29, 2021

Penalty

Initial $4,096 · Current $4,096

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(w)(7): The mobile scaffold platform extended outward beyond the base supports of the scaffold and outrigger frames or equivalent devices were not used to ensure stability:  Star Metal Apartments located at 1041 Howell Mill Road NW, Atlanta, GA 30312, 8th floor: On August 4, 2020, the employer exposed employees to tip-over/fall hazards of approximately 18-feet to the lower level, in that scaffold extensions were used on a caster wheel supported scaffold which was not provided with devices such as counterweights or outrigging systems to prevent tip over or collapse of the scaffold system used to perform EIFS installations on overhead soffits.