OSHA Inspection: SAMUEL DIAZ-GARCIA

Issued

Jul 11, 2023

Penalty

Initial $3,349 · Current $1,554 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.   On or about April 3, 2023, employees were exposed to a fall hazard while working from an outrigger and scaffold work platforms without the working level being fully planked.

Issued

Jul 11, 2023

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(2):Scaffold platforms and walkways were not at least 18 inches wide:  On or about April 3, 2023, employees were using a tubular welded frame scaffold and the walking platforms were not at least 18 inches wide.

Issued

Jul 11, 2023

Penalty

Initial $3,349 · Current $1,554 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.   On or about April 3, 2023, employees were working from a tubular welded frame scaffold and were climbing the frames and X braces to access the working levels.

Issued

Jul 11, 2023

Penalty

Initial $3,349 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(vii):Each employee on a scaffold, not otherwise specified in paragraphs (g)(1)(i) through (g)(1)(vi) of this section, more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above lower level was not protected from falls by the use of personal fall arrest systems or guardrail systems meeting the requirements of paragraph (g)(4) of this section.  On or about April 3, 2023, employees were exposed to a fall hazard greater than 10 feet while working from scaffold without the use of personal fall arrest systems.

Issued

Jul 11, 2023

Penalty

Initial $3,349 · Current $1,554 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.452(c)(2):Tubular welded frames and panels were not braced by cross, horizontal, or diagonal braces, or combination thereof, which would have secured vertical members together laterally:  On or about April 3, 2023 employees were using a tubular welded frame scaffold that did not have all the bracing in place.

Issued

Jul 11, 2023

Abate by

Jul 17, 2023

Penalty

Initial $2,679 · Current $1,338 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): The employer did not develop, implement, and/or maintain at the workplace a written hazard communication program which describes how the criteria specified in 29 CFR 1910.1200(f), (g), and (h) will be met: (Construction Reference: 1926.59)  On or about April 3, 2023, employees were using chemicals Portland cement, without a written hazard communication program in place.

Issued

Jul 11, 2023

Abate by

Jul 17, 2023

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.1200(g)(1): Employers did not have a safety data sheet in the workplace for each hazardous chemical which they use. (Construction Reference 1926.59)  On or about April 3, 2023, employees did not have safety data sheets for the Spectrum cement that was in use.

Issued

Jul 11, 2023

Abate by

Jul 17, 2023

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1): Employees were not provided effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment and whenever a new hazard that the employees had not been previously trained about was introduced into their work area: (Construction Reference: 1926.59)  On or about April 3, 2023, employees were using Portland cement, and had not been trained on the hazards of the chemicals they use.