OSHA Inspection: JORGE MARTINEZ

Issued

Aug 25, 2023

Abate by

Sep 21, 2023

Penalty

Initial $3,349 · Current $3,349

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.100(a):Employees working in areas where there is a possible danger of head injury from impact, or from falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns, shall be protected by protective helmets.  On or about May 3, 2023 employees were exposed to head injuries from being struck by falling objects while working beneath an occupied scaffold without protective helments.

Issued

Aug 25, 2023

Abate by

Sep 21, 2023

Penalty

Initial $4,688 · Current $4,688

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 May 1, 2023 employees were exposed to fall related injuries working from the 2nd and 3rd level working platform of a tubular welded scaffold that was not fully planked.

Issued

Aug 25, 2023

Abate by

Sep 21, 2023

Penalty

Initial $4,688 · Current $4,688

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 May 3, 2023 employees were exposed to fall and struck-by injuries related to scaffold collapse working in proximity to and on a 3 level tubular welded scaffold with uprights that were not bearing on base plates, mud sills or adequate firm foundation.

Issued

Aug 25, 2023

Abate by

Sep 21, 2023

Penalty

Initial $4,688 · Current $4,688

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 shall be used. Crossbraces shall not be used as a means of access.  On or about May 3, 2023 employees were exposed to fall injuries while working from a 3 tiered tubular welded scaffold without ladder access to upper levels.

Issued

Aug 25, 2023

Abate by

Sep 21, 2023

Penalty

Initial $4,688 · Current $4,688

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.  On or about May 3, 2023 employees were exposed to fall injuries working from a scaffold platform greater than 10 feet above lower ground level without fall protection.

Issued

Aug 25, 2023

Abate by

Sep 21, 2023

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(g)(4)(i):Guardrail systems were not installed along all open sides and ends of platforms.  On or about May 03, 2023 employees were exposed to fall injuries working from 2nd and 3rd level scaffold platforms without guardrails.

Issued

Aug 25, 2023

Abate by

Sep 21, 2023

Penalty

Initial $4,688 · Current $4,688

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.452(c)(2):Frames and panels were not braced by cross, horizontal, or diagonal braces, or combination thereof, which would secure vertical members together laterally, and the cross braces were not of such length as would  automatically square.  On or about May 3, 2023 employees were exposed to injury related to scaffold collapse while working from a 3 tiered tubular welded scaffold missing cross braces on the base level.

Issued

Aug 25, 2023

Abate by

Sep 21, 2023

Penalty

Initial $4,688 · Current $4,688

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.701(b):All protruding reinforcing steel, onto and/or into which employees could fall, was not guarded to eliminate the hazard of impalement:  On or about May 3, 2023 Employees were exposed to impalement injuries working above and around vertically protruding reinforcing steel without guards.