OSHA Inspection: C & M PROPERTIES AND CONSTRUCTION, INC.

Issued

Jun 14, 2022

Abate by

Aug 12, 2022

Penalty

Initial $10,151 · Current $8,121 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):  (a) Throughout the site; The employer did not conduct frequent and regular inspections of the job site to identify and correct hazards associated with falls, portable ladder use, scaffolding, and use of eye protection.

Issued

Jun 14, 2022

Abate by

Aug 12, 2022

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.21(b)(2): The employer did not instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his/her environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury:  (a) Throughout the site;  The employer did not adequately train employees in the hazards to include but not limited to, falls, portable ladder use, scaffolding, and use of eye protection.

Issued

Jun 14, 2022

Abate by

Jun 29, 2022

Penalty

Initial $4,351 · Current $3,481 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.102(a)(1): The employer shall ensure that each affected employee uses appropriate eye or face protection when exposed to eye or face hazards from flying particles, molten metal, liquid chemicals, acids or caustic liquids, chemical gases or vapors, or potentially injurious light radiation:  (a) Northeast side of structure; Employees were operating pneumatic nail gun(s) to install sub-fascia on a residential structure without the use of appropriate eye protection.

Issued

Jun 14, 2022

Abate by

Jun 29, 2022

Penalty

Initial $7,252 · Current $5,802 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:  (a) Northeast side of structure; A top plate scaffold system used to help frame a residential roof structure, was not fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports.

Issued

Jun 14, 2022

Abate by

Aug 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:  (a) Northeast side of structure; The employees were not trained by a qualified person to recognize the hazards and hazard control methods related to the top plate bracket scaffolding they were utilizing.

Issued

Jun 14, 2022

Abate by

Aug 12, 2022

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.454(b): The employer did not have each employee involved in erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, maintaining, or inspecting a scaffold trained by a competent person to recognize any hazards associated with the work in question:  (a) Northeast side of structure; Employees erecting top plate bracket scaffold system(s) were not trained by a competent person to recognize scaffolding hazards for the framing work to be performed.

Issued

Jun 14, 2022

Abate by

Jun 29, 2022

Penalty

Initial $10,151 · Current $8,121 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.501(b)(13): Each employee(s) engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels were not protected by guardrail systems, safety net system, or personal fall arrest system, nor were employee(s) provided with an alternative fall protection measure under another provision of paragraph 1926.501 (b):   (a) Residential roof structure, various locations;  One or more methods of fall protection was not in place while employees performed work from a 8:12 pitch roof at heights ranging between approximately 10 feet, 2 inches to 18 feet above ground level.

Issued

Jun 14, 2022

Abate by

Aug 12, 2022

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.503(a)(1): The employer did not provide a training program for each employee potentially exposed to fall hazards to enable each employee to recognize the hazards of falling and the procedures to be followed in order to minimize these hazards:  (a) Residential roof structure, various locations; Worker(s) exposed to fall hazards associated with residential roofing task(s) were not adequately trained to recognize fall hazards and/or the procedures to be followed to minimize fall hazards.

Issued

Jun 14, 2022

Abate by

Jun 29, 2022

Penalty

Initial $4,351 · Current $3,481 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1053(b)(1): Where (a) portable ladder(s) was/were used for access to an upper level landing surface and the ladder's length did not allow the ladder side rails to extend at least 3 feet (0.9 m) above the upper landing surface being accessed, the ladder was not secured at its top to a rigid support that will not deflect, and/or a grasping device was not provided to assist employees in mounting and dismounting the ladder:  (a) Northeast side of structure; A Keller Pro 978 8-foot fiberglass step ladder placed at ground level and used for accessing a top plate bracket scaffold system was not of sufficient height to allow for the side rails to extend at least 3 feet above the landing surface, was not equipped with a grasping device(s), and was not effectively secured to prevent displacement.

Issued

Jun 14, 2022

Abate by

Jun 29, 2022

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:  (a) Northeast side of structure; The top step and/or top cap of a Keller Pro 978 8-foot fiberglass stepladder was used as a step by employee(s) while accessing the top plate bracket scaffold system.   (b) Inside of 4-season room; The top step and/or top cap of an 8-foot fiberglass stepladder was used as a step by employees while egressing  the roof structure.