OSHA Inspection: EMILIO URIBE GARCIA

Issued

Oct 19, 2023

Abate by

Nov 17, 2023

Penalty

Initial $2,009 · Current $1,205 Reduced

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 the west side of the construction site, employees working from a tubular welded frame scaffold that was not fully planked on all working levels were exposed to falling hazards.

Issued

Oct 19, 2023

Abate by

Nov 17, 2023

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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 toe boards, 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 the west side of the construction site, employees working from a tubular welded frame scaffold without toe boards being installed were exposed to being struck by falling objects.

Issued

Oct 19, 2023

Abate by

Nov 17, 2023

Penalty

Initial $2,009 · Current $1,205 Reduced

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.  Cross braces were used as a means of access.   On the west side of the construction site, the employer did not provide a scaffold ladder where employees could access and egress the tubular welded frame scaffold safely exposing them to fall hazards.

Issued

Oct 19, 2023

Abate by

Nov 17, 2023

Penalty

Initial $2,679 · Current $1,607 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(g)(1): Employees on scaffolds more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level by fall protection established in paragraphs (g)(1)(i)-(vii) of this section:   On the west side of the construction site, employees were observe working from the second-tier tubular welded frame scaffold without a fall protective systems such as guardrail and personal fall arrest systems while performing masonry work exposed to a fall hazard of 14 feet to the ground below.