OSHA Inspection: CASAS CUSTOM LATH & PLASTER

Issued

2023-08-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2009.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.100(a):Employees working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns, were not protected by protective helmets:  On or about June 13, 2023, and at times prior thereto, employees were exposed to a stuck-by hazard while handling materials  under a scaffold without head protection.

Issued

2023-08-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4688.00 · Current $2000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds shall be fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports as follows:   4-tiered Scaffold: On or about June 13, 2023, and at times prior thereto, employees were exposed to a fall hazard while accessing a scaffold that was not fully planked.

Issued

2023-08-03 00:00:00

Abate by

2023-08-23 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(c)(1)(ii): Guys, ties, and/or braces were not installed  according to the scaffold manufacturer's recommendations or at the closest horizontal member to the 4:1 height and repeated vertically at locations of horizontal members every 20 feet (56.1 m) or less thereafter for scaffolds 3 feet ((0.91 m) wide or less, and every 26 feet (7.9 m) or less thereafter for scaffolds greater than 3 feet (0.91m) wide.   4-tiered Scaffold: On or about June 13, 2023, and at times prior thereto, employees were exposed to a fall hazard while accessing a scaffold that was not protected from tipping over at heights over 20 feet .

Issued

2023-08-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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 June 13, 2023, and at times prior thereto, employees were exposed to a fall hazard while accessing a scaffold without a ladder or other means of access and egress.

Issued

2023-08-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(e)(4)(xii): Guardrails meeting the requirements of paragraph (g)(4) of this section shall be provided on the open sides and ends of each landing.  4-tier scaffold: On or about June 13, 2023, and at times prior thereto, employees were exposed to a fall hazard while performing masonry work on scaffold without guardrails installed.

Issued

2023-08-03 00:00:00

Abate by

2023-08-29 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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.   On or about June 13, 2023, and at times prior thereto, employees were exposed to a fall hazard while working from a scaffold that was not erected by a competent person.

Issued

2023-08-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(h)(1): Each employee on a scaffold was not provided with additional protection from falling hand tools, debris, and other small objects through the installation of toeboards, screens, guardrail systems, or through the erection of debris nets, catch platforms, or canopy structures that contain or deflect the falling objects.  For falling objects too large, heavy or massive to be contained or deflected, the employer did not place and secure such potential falling objects away from the edge of the surface from which they could fall.  On or about June 13, 2023, and at times prior thereto, employees were exposed to a struck-by hazard while working on a scaffold without toe boards installed.