OSHA Inspection: JOHN OLIVEIRA & SONS STAMP CONCRETE, INC./OLIVEIRA BROTHERS MATERIALS, INC.

Issued

2023-11-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2023-11-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $6250.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

OSH ACT of 1970 Section (5)(a)(1): The employer did not furnish employment and a place of employment which were free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees, in that employees are exposed to crush and fall hazards;   Location: Worksite  On or about September 6, 2023, the employer did not ensure through providing appropriate means of access, training and specific instructions and visual observation that the employee who was required to remove the upper soil screen on the 1994 EXTEC 5000S tail conveyor was exposed to crushing and fall hazards while riding the bucket of a Yanmar V4-6 front-end loader in order to access a soil screener tail conveyor's upper soil screen.

Issued

2023-11-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2023-11-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $6250.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.28(b)(1)(i):  Except as provided elsewhere in this section 29 CFR 1910.28, the employer did not ensure that each employee on a walking-working surface with an unprotected side or edge that is 4 feet (1.2 m) or more above a lower level is protected from falling by one or more of the systems described in 29 CFR 1910.28(b)(1)(i):  Location: Worksite  On or about September 6, 2023, employees were exposed to falls greater than 4' while working on a 1994 EXTEC 5000S soil screener's tail conveyor.

Issued

2023-11-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-01-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $62504.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

OSH ACT of 1970 Section (5)(a)(1):The employer did not furnish employment and a place of employment which were free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause injuries and death or serious physical harm to employees, in that employees were exposed to injuries and death due to the inadequately maintained 1994 EXTEC 5000S Soil Screener;  Location: Worksite  On September 6, 2023, two employees were standing and working on a 1994 EXTEC 5000S Soil Screener's tail conveyor, with a broken rusted hydraulic line's fitting caked in dried dirt, ruptured hydraulic line with dried dirt caked around the hydraulic line and inside hydraulic line, spider webs inside the ruptured hydraulic line, a broken right side conveyor missing the rubber conveyor belt, broken hand lever controlling the tail conveyor, missing fedder hand lever controlling the fedder conveyor, a bent Grizzly screen from another soil screener on top of the front hopper, and a missing left front support leg exposing the employees to injuries and death.

Issued

2023-11-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-01-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $62504.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.147(c)(1): The employer did not establish a program consisting of an energy control procedure, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performed any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, startup or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source and rendered inoperative:  Location: Worksite  On or about September 6, 2023, the employer did not establish an energy control program consisting of energy control procedures, employee training, and periodic inspections including but not limited to the employees maintaining and repairing a red 1994 EXTEC 5000S soil screener, exposing employees to injuries and death.

Issued

2023-11-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2023-11-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $62504.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.147(c)(5)(i): Locks, tags, chains, wedges, key blocks, adapter pins, self-locking fasteners, or other hardware were not provided by the employer for isolating, securing, or blocking of machines or equipment from energy sources:   Location:  Worksite  On or about September 6, 2023, employees performing maintenance and servicing of a soil screen were required to stand on a 1994 EXTEC 5000S soil screener's tail conveyor that was not locked out/tagged out, to unbolt an upper soil screen in order to change the screen exposing the employees to fall hazards and crush injuries.

Issued

2023-11-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-01-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $893.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1904.4(a): The employer did not record each work-related fatality, injury or illness case that resulted in the general recording criteria on the OSHA Form 300 or equivalent.   Location: Work Site  On or about September 6, 2023, OSHA Logs were not maintained by John Oliveira & Sons Stamp Concrete, Inc./Oliveira Brothers Materials, Inc.  Instance 1: On September 6, 2023, an employee died while attempting to perform servicing and maintenance on the soil screener while working at John Oliveira & Sons Stamp Concrete, Inc./Oliveira Brothers Materials, Inc., 31-33 Middleboro Road East Freetown, MA 02717 and the death was not recorded on an OSHA Log.  Instance 2: On June 20, 2023, an employee was injured when using a concrete saw lacerated his left thigh with the saw that required treatment to include thirteen sutures at St. Luke's Hospital's Emergency Room, 101 Page Street New Bedford, MA 02740 and the injury was not recorded on an OSHA Log.  Instance 3: On June 9, 2023 an employee was overcome by heat, gas fumes, carbon monoxide being generated by concrete helicopters being used in a closed residential home's basement, passed out, and sought medical treatment, at St. Luke's Hospital's Emergency Room, 101 Page Street New Bedford, MA 02740 on June 10, 2023 and missed two day of work, and the injury was not recorded on an OSHA Log.