OSHA Inspection: FBS CONSTRUCTION INC.

Issued

Jul 1, 2021

Abate by

Jul 14, 2021

Penalty

Initial $2,926 · Current $1,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.20(b)(1): The employer did not initiate and maintain programs necessary to ensure compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Standards such as a safety and health program with policy, hazard assessment, and work site rules was not developed and/or implemented at this job site:  Site - On or about May 13, 2021, the employer did not initiate and maintain an accident and injury prevention program where employees were exposed to  amputations, eye injuries and falls on the jobsite.

Issued

Jul 1, 2021

Penalty

Initial $2,926 · Current $1,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.102(a)(1): The employer did not ensure that each affected employee used appropriate eye or face protection when exposed to eye or face hazards from flying particles:  Site - On or about May 13, 2021, employees were allowed to use the pneumatic staple guns and the Dewalt table saw without utilizing  eye protection from flying particles.

Issued

Jul 1, 2021

Penalty

Initial $2,341 · Current $1,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(b)(4): Each end of a platform, unless cleated or otherwise restrained by hooks or equivalent means, shall extend over the centerline of its support at least 6 inches (15 cm).  Site - On or about May 13, 2021, each end of a platform on the pump jack scaffold did not extend over a support or equivalent means.

Issued

Jul 1, 2021

Penalty

Initial $2,926 · Current $1,000 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:  Site - On or about May 13, 2021, employees working on the pump jack scaffold were not protected from a fall of over 10 feet to the ground on the driveway end of the platform where one employee was observed installing siding.

Issued

Jul 1, 2021

Penalty

Initial $2,341 · Current $1,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1053(b)(1): Portable ladders were used for access to an upper landing surface and the ladder side rails did not extend at least 3 feet (.9 m) above the upper landing surface to which the ladder was used to gain access:  Site - On or about May 13, 2021, a portable 6 foot step ladder was being used by employees to access the scaffold platform where the side rails did not extend at least 3 feet above the platform.

Issued

Jul 1, 2021

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1053(b)(13): The top or top step of a stepladder was used as a step:  Site - on or about May 13, 2021, employees onsite were using the top step of a 6 foot stepladder to access and egress the scaffold platform.

Issued

Jul 1, 2021

Abate by

Jul 14, 2021

Penalty

Initial $2,926 · Current $0 Reduced

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):  Site - On or about May 13, 2021, the employer did not provide for frequent and regular inspections of the jobsite, materials and equipment to be made by a competent person where employees were exposed to amputation, eye injury and fall hazards.

Issued

Jul 1, 2021

Penalty

Initial $4,096 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.300(b)(1): Power operated tool(s), designed to accommodate guards, were not equipped with such guards when in use:  Site - On or about May 13, 2021, employees were using the Dewalt table saw to crosscut composite siding without the blade guard or hood installed, leaving the entire spinning blade surface above the table exposed to the operator.

Issued

Jul 1, 2021

Penalty

Initial $2,341 · Current $0 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 May 13, 2021, the pump jack scaffolding in use at the jobsite did not bear on a firm foundation where baseplates and mudsills were not used and the poles were resting in the sand.

Issued

Jul 1, 2021

Penalty

Initial $2,341 · Current $0 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:  Site - The pump jack scaffold in use at the jobsite was not erected by trained and experienced employees under the supervision of a competent person where the scaffold did not have baseplates or mudsills installed.  The bottom of each pole was not secured to the building and the platforms were not resting on supports where they were joined together.

Issued

Jul 1, 2021

Penalty

Initial $2,341 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.452(j)(2): Poles of pump jack scaffold(s) were not secured to the structure by rigid triangular bracing, or equivalent, at the bottom, top and other points as necessary:  Site - On or about May 13, 2021, the pump jack scaffold in use by employees at the worksite was not secured to the structure at the bottom of each pole.

Issued

Jul 1, 2021

Abate by

Jul 14, 2021

Penalty

Initial $2,926 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.454(a): The employer did not have each employee who performed work while on a scaffold trained by a person qualified in the subject matter to recognize the hazards associated with the type of scaffold being used and to understand the procedures to control or minimize those hazards:  Site - On or about May 13, 2021, each employee at the jobsite was not adequately trained by a qualified person to recognize the hazards of working from pump jack scaffolding without fall protection, without the poles being secured properly and without the baseplates and mudsills installed.

Issued

Jul 1, 2021

Abate by

Jul 14, 2021

Penalty

Initial $2,341 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1060(a):The employer did not provide a training program for each employee using ladders and stairways, as necessary, which would enable each employee to recognize hazards related to ladders and stairways and train each employee in the procedures to be followed to minimize these hazards:  Site - On or about May 13, 2021, the employer did not provide adequate training for employees using ladders which would enable them to recognize hazards related to the use of the top step on stepladders and the extension of ladders 3 feet above their landing surfaces.