OSHA Inspection: JACK TYLER ENGINEERING, INCORPORATED

Issued

2022-05-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-06-09 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $10151.00 · Current $6091.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.501(b)(4)(ii): Each employee on a walking/working surface was not protected from tripping in or stepping into or through holes (including skylights) by covers:  On or about November 16, 2021, on the north side of the intersection of US Highway 62 and Sundowner Ranch Avenue, employees cutting an 8-inch ductile iron pipe over a sewer well were not protected from falling into the well by a protective cover or barrier.

Issued

2022-05-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-06-09 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $10151.00 · Current $6091.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1203(b)(1):  Where the workplace contained one or more permit spaces, the employer who identified, or received notice of, a permit space did not inform exposed employees by posting danger signs or by any other equally effective means of the existence and location of, and the danger posed by, each permit space.  On the north side of the intersection of US Highway 62 and Sundowner Ranch Avenue, the employer did not post danger signs to inform employees replacing a ductile pipe in a 31-feet deep well of the danger posed by the permit space.

Issued

2022-05-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-06-09 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $10151.00 · Current $6091.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1205(a): Before entry was authorized, the employer did not document the completion of measures required by paragraph 1926.1204(c) of this standard by preparing an entry permit:  On or about November 16, 2021, on the north side of the intersection of US Highway 62 and Sundowner Ranch Avenue, employees replacing a ductile iron pipe in a sewer well entered the confined space without an entry permit.

Issued

2022-05-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-06-09 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $10151.00 · Current $6091.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1211(c): The employer did not designate an entry rescue service when non-entry rescue was not selected. The entry employer did not ensure that retrieval systems or methods were used when an authorized entrant entered a permit space, and did not confirm, prior to entry, that emergency assistance would be available in the event that non-entry rescue failed:  On or about November 16, 2021, on the north side of the intersection of US Highway 62 and Sundowner Ranch Avenue, the employer did not designate an entry rescue service in that employees of this employer entered a confined space for rescue purposes.

Issued

2022-05-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-06-09 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1211(c)(1):  Each authorized entrant did not use a chest or full body harness, with a retrieval line:  On or about November 16, 2021, on the north side of the intersection of US Highway 62 and Sundowner Ranch Avenue,   a)  Employees entered the well to perform tasks including, but not limited to removing existing components of the sewer system.  Employees did not wear a chest or full-body harness with a retrieval line;  b)  Employees entered the well to perform rescue without equipment such as but not limited to a chest or full body harness and retrieval line.

Issued

2022-05-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-06-16 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $10151.00 · Current $6091.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1431(a): The use of equipment to hoist employees was not prohibited except where the employer demonstrates that the erection, use, and dismantling of conventional means of reaching the work area, such as a personnel hoist, ladder, stairway, aerial lift, elevating work platform, or scaffold, would be more hazardous, or is not possible because of the projects structural design or worksite conditions:    On or about November 16, 2021, on the north side of the intersection of US Highway 62 and Sundowner Ranch Avenue, employees were using a Venturo ET36KX truck mounted crane to lower and hoist employees in and out of the sewer well with a winch attached to a boatswain's chair.

Issued

2022-05-13 00:00:00

Abate by

2022-06-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $7252.00 · Current $4351.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1904.39(a)(2): The employer did not report within 24-hours a work-related incident resulting in in-patient hospitalization, amputation or the loss of an eye.  The employer failed to report an inpatient hospitalization that occurred on November 16, 2021 at about 10:30 a.m. within 24 hours.  OSHA was notified on November 19, 2021 at 12:00 p.m.