OSHA Inspection: HOME HNS REPAIR, INC.

Issued

2023-12-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-01-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2009.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.21(b)(2): The employer did not instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe condition(s) and the regulation(s) applicable to his work environment to control or eliminate any hazard(s) or other exposure to illness or injury.   Jobsite: The employees, engaged in roofing work were not trained in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions, involving PPE and power tools or the applicable regulations to control or eliminate them.

Issued

2023-12-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-01-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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.   Jobsite: The employee, engaged in roofing work from the elevated platform of the ladder-jack scaffold, was not trained to  recognize ladder-jack scaffold hazards or the procedures to control or eliminate them.

Issued

2023-12-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-01-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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:   Jobsite: The employees, engaged in roofing work were not trained in the recognition and avoidance of fall hazards or the procedures to control or eliminate them.

Issued

2023-12-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-01-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1060(a): The employer did not provide a training program for each employee using ladders and stairways, as necessary, which would train each employee in the procedures to be followed to minimize hazards related to ladders and stairways:    Jobsite: The employees, engaged in roofing work were using extension ladders to access the roof(s), to work from and to support a scaffold platform were not trained in the recognition of ladder hazards or the procedures to control or eliminate them.

Issued

2023-12-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2023-12-29 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3349.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.100(a): Employees were not protected by protective helmets while working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or from falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns:   Jobsite: Employees, working on the lower roof, scaffold and/or on the ground were not wearing head protection and, were exposed to dropped falling objects/material from the roofing work going on above them.

Issued

2023-12-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2023-12-29 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2679.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.102(a)(1): Employees did not use eye and face protection equipment when machines or operations presented potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents:   Jobsite: Employees, operating pneumatic nail guns and membrane cleaner/solvent/adhesive to affix asphalt shingles and membrane roofing to the roof, were not wearing eye protection

Issued

2023-12-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4688.00 · Current $2000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(g)(1)(i): Each employee on a boatswains' chair, catenary scaffold, float scaffold, needle beam scaffold, or ladder jack scaffold was not protected by a personal fall arrest system:   Jobsite: The employee, engaged in roofing work from the elevated platform of the ladder-jack scaffold, was not using a personal fall arrest system.

Issued

2023-12-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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):    Jobsite: The employees, engaged in roofing work from the upper and lower roof sections of the addition, were not using fall protection and exposed to fall of 12-ft 8-in to over 27-ft to lower levels.

Issued

2023-12-22 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3349.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(b)(5)(ii): The end of a platform greater than 10 feet in length extended over its support more than 18 inches and the platform was not designed and installed so that the cantilevered portion of the platform is able to support employees without tipping or has guardrails which block employee access to the cantilevered end.   Jobsite: The left side of the elevated platform of the ladder-jack scaffold extended 7-ft beyond its support and exposed the employee to tipping and/or scaffold failure.

Issued

2023-12-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2023-12-29 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4688.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1053(b)(1): Where portable ladders were used for access to an upper landing surface and the ladder's length allows, the ladder side rails did not extend at least 3 feet (.9 m) above the upper landing surface being accessed:   Jobsite: The extension ladders, used by employees to access the roof, did not extend 3-ft beyond the surface accessed and exposed them to falling while mounting/dismounting the ladder.

Issued

2023-12-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2023-12-29 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2679.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1053(b)(16): Portable ladders with structural defects, such as, but not limited to, broken or missing rungs, cleats, or steps, broken or split rails, corroded components, or other faulty or defective components, were not either immediately marked in a manner that readily identifies them as defective, or tagged with "Do Not Use" or similar language, and were not withdrawn from service until repaired.   Jobsite: The bottom half of the 28-ft extension ladders, used by employees to roof shingles above the bulkhead, was missing its top rung and not removed from service exposing employees to ladder failure.