OSHA Inspection: ARTISTIC STONES, INC.

Issued

Jul 26, 2022

Penalty

Initial $1,865 · Current $1,119 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.102(a)(1): Employees did not use eye and face protection equipment when machines or operations presented potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents:   On or about 1/28/22, at 921 SE 17th Street, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, an employee cutting bricks was exposed to struck-by hazards due to lack of eye protection.

Issued

Jul 26, 2022

Penalty

Initial $3,108 · Current $1,865 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(b)(1):Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds was not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports as specified in paragraphs 1926.451(b)(1)(i)-(ii):  On or about 1/28/22, at 921 SE 17th Street, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, employees installing brick on a commercial building from a  2-tier scaffold were exposed to a 12.8-foot fall hazard due to lack of planking.

Issued

Jul 26, 2022

Penalty

Initial $3,108 · Current $1,865 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames,  or uprights did not bear on base plates and mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:   On or about 1/28/22, at 921 SE 17th Street, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, employees installing brick on a commercial building from a  2-tier scaffold was exposed to a 12.8-foot fall hazard due to scaffold uprights being installed over cement block units.

Issued

Jul 26, 2022

Penalty

Initial $3,108 · Current $1,865 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(e)(1): When scaffold platforms were 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 other scaffold, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access:   On or about 01/28/22, at 921 SE 17th Street, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, employees installing brick on a commercial building from a  2-tier scaffold was exposed to a 12.8-foot fall hazard due to lack of safe access to and from the top tier of the scaffold.

Issued

Jul 26, 2022

Abate by

Sep 12, 2022

Penalty

Initial $3,108 · Current $1,865 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(f)(7): Scaffolds shall be 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 shall be performed only by experienced and trained employees selected for such work by the competent person:   On or about 1/28/22, at 921 SE 17th Street, Fort Lauderdale, FL, the employer did not ensure a 2-tier scaffold was erected by trained and experienced employees under the direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection, thus exposing employees to 12.8-foot fall hazards while working from the scaffolding.

Issued

Jul 26, 2022

Abate by

Sep 12, 2022

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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:   On or about 1/28/22, at 921 SE 17th Street, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the employer did not provide training to employees working from scaffolding to recognize the hazards associated with the fabricated scaffold being used and to understand the procedures to control or minimize scaffold hazards; the employees were exposed to 12.8-foot fall hazards while working from the scaffolding.

Issued

Jul 26, 2022

Penalty

Initial $3,108 · Current $1,865 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:  On or about 1/28/22, at 921 SE 17th Street, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, an employee cutting bricks with a 12-inch double bevel miter saw was exposed to amputation hazards due to lack of  guards attached to the power tool.