OSHA Inspection: VELASQUEZ CONSTRUCTION LLC

Issued

Apr 24, 2023

Penalty

Initial $4,018 · Current $2,411 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.102(a)(1): The employer did not 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) Worksite: On or about 3/24/2023, employees were using hand and battery powered tools without eye protection while installing sheathing and aluminum trim, exposing them to struck-by type injuries from flying debris.

Issued

Apr 24, 2023

Penalty

Initial $2,679 · Current $1,607 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.  (a) Worksite - Back of the building:  On or about 3/24/2023, the employer allowed employees to assemble and use a pump jack scaffold with one of the uprights resting on the ground and not bearing on base plates and mud sills or another adequate firm foundation.

Issued

Apr 24, 2023

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(f)(7): Scaffolds were not erected, moved, dismantled, or altered, by trained and experienced employees 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.  (a) Worksite - Back of the building:  On or about 3/24/2023, the pump jack scaffold was not erected by a trained and experienced employee or under the supervision and direction of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection.

Issued

Apr 24, 2023

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(g)(1): Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet above a lower level was not protected from falling to that lower level.  (a) Worksite - Back of the building:  On or about 3/24/2023, employees were exposed to fall hazards while working from a pump jack scaffold system approximately 10.7 feet above the lower level without any means of fall protection.

Issued

Apr 24, 2023

Penalty

Initial $4,688 · Current $2,813 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 were not protected by guardrail systems, safety net system, or personal fall arrest system, nor were employees provided with an alternative fall protection measure under another provision of paragraph 1926.501(b):  (a) Worksite - Roof level:  On or about 3/24/2023, employees were exposed to fall hazards while walking freely and stepping to and from different elevations on a sloped roof approximately 10.3 feet above the lower level without any means of fall protection.

Issued

Apr 24, 2023

Penalty

Initial $376 · Current $226 Reduced

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) Worksite - Back of the building:  On or about 3/24/2023, the employer did not train each employee working from a pump jack scaffold to recognize the hazards associated with the type of scaffold being used and the procedures to control or minimize the hazards.

Issued

Apr 24, 2023

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) Worksite - Back of the building:  On or about 3/24/2023, the employer did not ensure that employees involved in erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, maintaining, or inspecting a pump jack scaffold system were properly trained by a competent person to recognize the hazards associated with the work being performed.

Issued

Apr 24, 2023

Penalty

Initial $376 · Current $226 Reduced

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) Worksite:  On or about 3/24/2023, the employer did not provide adequate training to employees working on a residential roof prior to exposing them to a fall hazard of approximately 10.3 feet in height above the lower level.