OSHA Inspection: ATLANTIC COAST UTILITIES, LLC, ADVANCED UTILITIES, INCORPORATED

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $13,653 · Current $13,653

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.20(b)(2):The employer did not initiate and maintain programs which provided for frequent and regular inspections of the job site, materials and equipment to be made by a competent person(s).  Location: Worksites  Employees are being exposed to hazards associated with roadway excavation work where the employer does not inspect the jobsite to identify and eliminate hazards such as but not limited to; struck-by, caught between,  public and construction vehicular traffic, and construction equipment.

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $13,653 · Current $13,653

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.200(g)(2): Traffic control signs and/or devices used for protection of construction workers did not conform to Part VI of the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), 2009 Edition, December 2009 (including Revision 1 dated May 2012 and Revision 2 dated May 2012).    Location: Worksites  Employees are exposed to  struck-by and caught between hazards from public vehicular traffic  while working where signs and devices are not emplaced in accordance with Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 2009 Edition, December 2009 (including Revision 1 dated May 2012 and Revision 2 dated May 2012.

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $13,653 · Current $13,653

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.601(b)(14): All defects were not corrected before motor vehicle(s) were placed in service:   Location: Worksites  Employees are exposed to struck-by and caught between hazards while working where the dump truck has multiple defects such as but not limited to; inoperable lights, unsecured fire extinguisher and a disconnected dump body safety alarm.

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $13,653 · Current $13,653

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.651(d): Employees exposed to public vehicular traffic were not provided with a warning vest or other suitable garments marked with or made of reflectorized or high-visibility material:  Location: Worksite located in front of 190 High Street Boston MA.  Employees are exposed to motor vehicle and equipment struck-by hazards while working where high visibility garments are not worn.

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $13,653 · Current $13,653

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.651(g)(1)(i): Where oxygen deficiency (atmosphere containing less than 19.5 percent oxygen) or a hazardous atmosphere existed or could reasonably be expected to exist, such as in excavations in landfill areas or excavations in areas where hazardous substances were stored nearby, the atmospheres in the excavation were not tested before employees entered excavations greater than 4 feet (1.22m) in depth:  Location: Worksites  Employees are exposed to potentially hazardous sewer gases such as methane, hydrogen sulfide and carbon monoxide, and natural gas  while working where atmospheric testing is not being performed inside the excavation.

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $13,653 · Current $13,653

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.651(g)(2)(i): Emergency rescue equipment, such as breathing apparatus, a safety harness and line, or a basket stretcher, was not readily available where hazardous atmospheric conditions existed or could reasonably be expected to develop during work in an excavation.   Location: Worksites  Employees are exposed potentially hazardous atmospheric conditions without the proper emergency rescue equipment to facilitate a safe extraction from the excavation should  an employee  become incapacitated.

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $13,653 · Current $13,653

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.651(j)(1): Adequate protection was not provided to protect employees from loose rock or soil that could pose a hazard by falling or rolling from an excavation face:  Location: Worksites  Employees are exposed to struck-by hazards while working in excavations where the employer does not provide adequate protection from loose rock or soil that could pose a hazard by falling or rolling from an excavation face.

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $13,653 · Current $13,653

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.652(a)(2): Protective systems did not have the capacity to resist without failure all loads that were intended or could reasonably be expected to be applied or transmitted to the system.  Location: Worksites  Employees are exposed to trench collapse while working in excavations, with straight cut earthen walls, where the hydraulic shoring protective systems do not have the capacity to resist without failure all loads that are intended or could reasonably be expected to be applied to them.

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $13,653 · Current $13,653

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.652(c)(2)(i): Design of support systems, shield systems, or other protective systems that were drawn from manufacturer's tabulated data were not in accordance with all specifications, recommendations, and limitations issued or made by the manufacturer:  Location: Worksites  Employees are exposed to excavation cave-in hazards while working where the employer is not installing the protective system in accordance with all specifications, recommendations, and limitations issued or made by the manufacturer.

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.652(c)(2)(ii): Deviations from the specifications, recommendations and limitations issued and made by the manufacturer were made without with the specific written approval of the manufacturer:  Location: Worksites  Employees are expose to cave in hazards while working in excavations where the protection system deviate from the specifications, recommendations and limitations issued and made by the manufacturer and are made without with the specific written approval of the manufacturer.

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.652(c)(2)(iii): Manufacturer's specifications, recommendations, and limitations, and manufacturer's approval to deviate from the specifications, recommendations, and limitations were not in written form at the jobsite during construction of the protective system:  Location: Worksites   The excavations  protective systems design deviate from the manufacturer's specifications and the changes are not in written form at the jobsites during construction and installation of the protective systems.

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $13,653 · Current $13,653

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.652(e)(1)(ii):  Support systems were not installed and removed in a manner that protected employees from cave-ins, structural collapses, or from being struck by members of the support system:  Location: Worksites   Employees are exposed to cave-in hazards while working in excavations where the support systems are not installed and removed in a manner that protects employees from cave-ins, structural collapses, or from being struck by members of the support system.

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.652(e)(1)(iii):Individual members of support systems were subjected to loads exceeding those which those members were designed to withstand:  Location: Worksites  Employees are exposed to cave-in hazards while working where individual members of the trench wall support system are subjected to loads that exceed their design.

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $13,653 · Current $13,653

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.652(e)(2)(i): Excavation of material to a level no greater than 2 feet (.61m) below the bottom of the members of a support system was permitted where the system was not designed to resist the forces calculated for the full depth of the trench:  Location: Worksites  Employees are exposed to cave-in hazards while working where the excavation of material is greater than two feet below the bottom of a trench wall support system not designed to resist the forces calculated for the full depth of the trench.

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Penalty

Initial $13,653 · Current $13,653

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1053(b)(1): Where (a) portable ladder(s) was/were used for access to an upper level landing surface and the ladder's length did not allow the ladder side rails to extend at least 3 feet (0.9 m) above the upper landing surface being accessed, the ladder was not secured at its top to a rigid support that would not deflect, and/or a grasping device was not provided to assist employees in mounting and dismounting the ladder:  Location: Worksites  Employees are exposed to  fall hazards while using a ladder that does not extend at least 3 feet above street level surface.

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $136,532 · Current $136,532

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.21(b)(2):The employer did not instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his/her environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury:  Location: Worksites  Employees are not trained to recognize and avoid hazards associated with roadway work and excavations such as struck-by, caught between, asphyxia and other hazards as required by the standard and  demonstrated on or about  February 23, 2021 to February 24, 2021, where Jordy Alexander Castaneda Romero was not instructed on and protected from such hazards at the worksite in front of 190 High Street, Boston, MA.

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $136,532 · Current $136,532

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.21(b)(2):The employer did not instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his/her environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury:  Location: Worksite  Employees are not trained to recognize and avoid hazards associated with roadway work and excavations such as struck-by, caught between, asphyxia and other hazards as required by the standard and demonstrated on or about February 23, 2021 to February 24, 2021, where Juan Carlos Figueroa Gutierrez was not instructed on and protected from such hazards at the worksite in front of 190 High Street, Boston, MA.

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $136,532 · Current $136,532

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.21(b)(2):The employer did not instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his/her environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury:  Location: Worksite  Employees are not trained to recognize and avoid hazards associated with roadway work and excavations such as struck-by, caught between, asphyxia and other hazards as required by the standard and demonstrated on or about February 23, 2021 to February 24, 2021, where employee number three was not instructed on and protected from such hazards at the worksite in front of 190 High Street, Boston, MA.

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $136,532 · Current $136,532

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.21(b)(2):The employer did not instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his/her environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury:  Location: Worksite  Employees are not trained to recognize and avoid hazards associated with roadway work and excavations such as struck-by, caught between, asphyxia and other hazards as required by the standard and demonstrated on or about February 23, 2021 to February 24, 2021, where employee number four was not instructed on and protected from such hazards at the worksite in front of 190 High Street, Boston, MA.

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $136,532 · Current $136,532

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.21(b)(2):The employer did not instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his/her environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury:  Location: Worksite  Employees are not trained to recognize and avoid hazards associated with roadway work and excavations such as struck-by, caught between, asphyxia and other hazards as required by the standard and demonstrated on or about February 23, 2021 to February 24, 2021, where employee number five was not instructed on and protected from such hazards at the worksite in front of 190 High Street, Boston, MA.

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $136,532 · Current $136,532

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.21(b)(2):The employer did not instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his/her environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury:  Location: Worksite  Employees are not trained to recognize and avoid hazards associated with roadway work and excavations such as struck-by, caught between, asphyxia and other hazards as required by the standard and demonstrated on or about February 23, 2021 to February 24, 2021, where employee number six was not instructed on and protected from such hazards at the worksite in front of 190 High Street, Boston, MA.

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $136,532 · Current $136,532

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.652(a)(1):  Each employee in an excavation was not protected from cave-ins by an adequate protective system designed in accordance with 29 CFR 1926.652 (b) or (c).  Location: Worksites  Employees are being exposed to struck-by, caught between, asphyxia and other hazards associated with excavations while working in a nine foot, two inch deep trench with straight cut  earthen walls, in type "C" soil by not providing adequate protective systems designed in accordance with 29 CFR 1926.652 (b) or (c).

Issued

Aug 17, 2021

Abate by

Aug 25, 2021

Penalty

Initial $136,532 · Current $136,532

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.651(i)(3): Sidewalks, pavements, or appurtenant structures had been undermined and a support system or another method was not provided to protect employees from the possible collapse of such structures:   Location: Worksites  Employees are exposed to struck-by and caught between hazards while working in a 9 foot 2 inch excavation where the pavement has been undermined.  Atlantic Coast Utilities, LLC was previously cited for a violation of this occupational safety and health standard or its equivalent standard 1926.651(I)(3), which was contained in OSHA inspection number 1144134  citation number one, item number one and was affirmed as a final order on October 17, 2016, with respect to a workplace located at 201 West Brookline Street Boston MA. 02116.