OSHA Inspection: INFRATECH INTERNATIONAL, LLC

Issued

Nov 7, 2023

Penalty

Initial $3,984 · Current $0 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.651(c)(2): A stairway, ladder, ramp or other safe means of egress was not located in trench excavations that were 4 feet (1.22 m) or more in depth:  a. Retaining wall 2: Access through an excavation with a face measuring 5 foot 2 inches deep to get to another portion of the road retaining wall where employees were inserting spacers in the rebar did not have a ladder, acceptable sloped earth, ramp, or other safe means of egress.  Employees were exposed to fall hazards.  b. Retaining wall 2: Access to a excavation where employees were tying rebar next to excavated face measuring 5 feet 2 inches did not have a ladder, acceptable sloped earth, ramp, or other safe means of egress.  Employees were exposed to fall hazards.  c. Retaining wall 2, where connection to 30 inch water pipe began: An employee assigned to work in the excavation with a face of 6 feet, helping an excavator operator fill in soil and assigned to protect a communication conduit running through the excavation, did not have safe access, such as a ladder, acceptable sloped earth, ramp, or other safe means of egress.  Employees were exposed to fall hazards.

Issued

Nov 7, 2023

Penalty

Initial $3,984 · Current $2,789 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.651(h)(1): Employees were working in excavations in which there was accumulated water, or excavations in which water was accumulating, and adequate precautions had not been taken to protect employees against the hazards posed by water accumulation.  Retaining wall 2, where connection to 30-inch water pipe began: An employee was protecting communication cable conduit in an excavation measuring 6 feet deep in which there was accumulated water.  An employee was exposed to crushed-by and struck-by hazards.

Issued

Nov 7, 2023

Penalty

Initial $5,313 · Current $3,719 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(4): Ladder(s) were used for purposes other than the purpose for which they were designed:  a. Upper road extension: An 10-foot A frame ladder was being used in the closed position and propped up against the rebar of a retaining wall, to perform spacing work.  Employees were exposed to fall hazards.  b. Upper road extension: An employee was leaning off a 20-foot extension ladder and only had his left foot on the ladder "side-loading" while working at height of approximately 9 feet. Employee was exposed to fall hazards.