OSHA Inspection: HOMESTEAD HOUSING LLC

Issued

2022-01-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-01-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $5461.00 · Current $2731.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.20(b)(2): The employer did not initiate and maintain a safety program which provides for frequent and regular inspections of jobsites, materials, and equipment to be made by a competent person:  a) On or about September 24, 2021, and at times prior, Homestead Housing LLC as controlling and exposing employer, exposed their own workers and subcontracted workers to serious and potentially fatal injuries in that frequent and regular inspections were not conducted to identify unsafe conditions and worker actions at the jobsite including but not limited to fall hazards, unsafe scaffolding, lack of housekeeping and exposed rebar.

Issued

2022-01-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-01-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3121.00 · Current $1561.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.25(a): During the course of construction, alteration, or repairs, form or scrap lumber with protruding nails was not kept clear from work areas:   a) On or about September 24, 2021, and at times prior, workers were exposed to laceration and puncture wounds where construction debris with protruding nails was discarded at the exterior of a residential construction project.

Issued

2022-01-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-01-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4681.00 · Current $2341.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(2): Scaffold platforms and walkways were not at least 18 inches wide:  a) On or about September 24, 2021, and at times prior, workers were exposed to fall hazards while working from a scaffold fitted with one 11 inch plank where the scaffold supports would accommodate more than 18 inches platform.  b) On or about September 24, 2021, and at times prior, workers were exposed to fall hazards while using an 11 inch walkway from the ground to a structure interior and passing over an excavated area around the perimeter of the foundation wall as the means of entry to the work area.

Issued

2022-01-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-01-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1): When scaffold platforms were more than 2 feet 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:  a) On or about September 24, 2021, and at times prior, workers were exposed to fall hazards while climbing up scaffold supports to access a scaffold platform that was 5 feet, 11 inches, above the next lower level and no means of safe access was provided.

Issued

2022-01-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-01-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $5461.00 · Current $2731.00 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:  a) On or about September 24, 2021, and at times prior, workers were exposed to fall hazards while working from a pump jack scaffold with a support post sitting directly on recently disturbed soil, on a slope with no mud sill or base plate to prevent displacement.

Issued

2022-01-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-01-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2)(ii): Unstable objects were used to support scaffolds or platform units:  a) On or about September 24, 2021, and at times prior, workers were exposed exposed to falling more than 20 feet to ground level from a scaffold using 2X4 nominal lumber in place of 4 inch square metal supports provided by the manufacturer.

Issued

2022-01-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-01-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(vii): Each employee on a scaffold, not otherwise specified in paragraphs (g)(1)(i) through (g)(1)(vi) of this section, more than 10 feet above lower level was not protected from falls by the use of personal fall arrest systems or guardrail systems meeting the requirements of paragraph (g)(4) of this section.  a) On or about September 24, 2021, and at times prior, workers were exposed to fall hazards greater than 15 feet while on a raised pump jack scaffold system.  b) On or about September 24, 2021 and at times prior, workers were exposed to fall hazards greater than 10 feet while working from a raised wood job-made platform placed on a telehandler.

Issued

2022-01-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-01-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3901.00 · Current $1951.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.501(b)(13):  Each employee engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels shall be protected by guardrail systems, safety net system, or personal fall arrest system unless another provision in paragraph (b) of this section provides for an alternative fall protection measure:    a) On or about September 24, 2021, and at times prior, workers without fall protection were exposed to falling more than six feet while standing on an insulated concrete foundation wall of a residential structure.

Issued

2022-01-12 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-01-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3901.00 · Current $1951.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.701(b): All protruding reinforcing steel, onto and/or into which employees could fall, was not guarded to eliminate the hazard of impalement:  a) On or about September 24, 2021, and at times prior, workers were exposed to impalement hazards where rebar was not protected along a walk way at the south foundation wall exposure.