OSHA Inspection: BUILT STRONG CONSTRUCTION, LLC

Issued

Mar 3, 2022

Penalty

Initial $3,729 · Current $3,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(b)(1)(i): Each platform unit (e.g., scaffold plank, fabricated plank, fabricated deck, or fabricated platform) was not installed so that the space between adjacent units and the space between the platform and the uprights was no more than 1 inch (2.5 cm) wide, except where the employer can demonstrate that a wider space is necessary (for example, to fit around uprights when side brackets are used to extend the width of the platform):  On or about January 19, 2022, employees were exposed to a fall hazard while installing cinder blocks from a scaffold platform with planks greater than 1 inch from the uprights.

Issued

Mar 3, 2022

Penalty

Initial $3,729 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(c)(2)(ii):  Unstable objects were used to support scaffolds or platform units:   On or about January 19, 2022, employees were exposed to a fall hazard while installing cinder blocks from a scaffold with footings on unstable blocks.

Issued

Mar 3, 2022

Penalty

Initial $2,486 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(e)(1):  When scaffold platforms are more than 2 feet (0.6 m) 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 another scaffold, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface were not used:  On or about January 19, 2022, employees were exposed to a fall hazard while working from a scaffold without a ladder for access.

Issued

Mar 3, 2022

Penalty

Initial $4,351 · Current $2,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(f)(7): Scaffolds were not erected, moved, dismantled, or altered only 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:   On or about January 19, 2022, employees were to a fall hazard, while installing cinder blocks from the platform of a scaffold not erected under the supervision of a competent person.

Issued

Mar 3, 2022

Penalty

Initial $3,729 · Current $2,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(g)(4)(i): Guardrail systems were not installed along all open sides and ends of platforms. Complete guardrail systems were not installed before the scaffold was released for use by employees other than erection/dismantling crews:   On or about January 19, 2022, employees were exposed to a fall hazard while working from a scaffold platform without a complete guardrail system installed.

Issued

Mar 3, 2022

Penalty

Initial $2,486 · Current $1,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(h)(2)(ii): A toeboard was not erected along the edge of platform more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above lower levels for a distance sufficient to protect employees below, (except on float (ship) scaffolds where an edging of 3/4 x 1 1/2 inch (2 x 4 cm) wood or equivalent may be used in lieu of toeboards):  On or about January 19, 2022, employees were exposed to a struck-by hazard, while walking beneath a scaffold without a toeboard on the platform.

Issued

Mar 3, 2022

Abate by

Mar 23, 2022

Penalty

Initial $3,729 · Current $2,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.454(a): The employer did not have each employee who performs 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:   On or about January 19, 2022, employees were exposed to a fall hazard while applying cinder blocks from a scaffold platform without having been trained in the hazards of a fall.

Issued

Mar 3, 2022

Abate by

Mar 23, 2022

Penalty

Initial $4,351 · Current $2,000 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1153(g)(1):  The employer did not establish and implement a written exposure control plan addressing respirable crystalline silica exposure:  On or about January 19, 2022, and at times prior thereto, employees were exposed to respiratory hazards while cutting cinder blocks with a masonry saw, without an exposure control plan.