OSHA Inspection: VALMAR CONSTRUCTION CORP.

Issued

Jul 19, 2024

Penalty

Initial $4,610 · Current $2,305 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 or about 03/01/2024, at 5990 S. University Drive, Davie, Florida, employees on a 3-tier scaffold installing masonry blocks at a 7-11 gas station were exposed to 13.5 feet fall hazard due to lack of planking.

Issued

Jul 19, 2024

Penalty

Initial $4,610 · Current $2,305 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:   On or about 03/01/2024, at 5990 S. University Drive, Davie, Florida, employees on a 3-tier scaffold installing masonry blocks at a 7-11 gas station were exposed to 13.5 feet fall hazard due to planks extending more than 18 inches over its support.

Issued

Jul 19, 2024

Penalty

Initial $4,610 · Current $2,305 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(b)(6): On scaffolds where scaffold planks were abutted to create a long platform, each abutted end did not rest on a separate support surface:   On or about 03/01/2024, at 5990 S. University Drive, Davie, Florida, employees on a 3-tier scaffold installing masonry blocks at a 7-11 gas station were exposed to 13.5 feet fall hazard due to planks that were abutted to create a long platform were not resting on a separate support surface.

Issued

Jul 19, 2024

Penalty

Initial $4,610 · Current $2,305 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.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access:   On or about 03/01/2024, at 5990 S. University Drive, Davie, Florida, employees on a 3-tier scaffold installing masonry blocks at a 7-11 gas station were exposed to 13.5 feet fall hazard due to lack of point of access to the scaffold.

Issued

Jul 19, 2024

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(e)(9)(iv): Cross braces on tubular welded frame scaffolds were used as a means of access or egress:   On or about 03/01/2024, at 5990 S. University Drive, Davie, Florida, employees on a 3-tier scaffold installing masonry blocks at a 7-11 gas station were exposed to 13.5 feet fall hazard due to climbing up and down the scaffold by using the crossbraces and other parts of the scaffold's components.

Issued

Jul 19, 2024

Penalty

Initial $4,610 · Current $2,305 Reduced

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 03/01/2024, at 5990 S. University Drive, Davie, Florida, employees on a 3-tier scaffold installing masonry blocks at a 7-11 gas station were exposed to 13.5 feet fall hazard due to various deficiencies with the scaffolding where a competent person in scaffolding was not present during the erection process of the scaffold.

Issued

Jul 19, 2024

Penalty

Initial $4,610 · Current $2,305 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(g)(1)(vii): Each employee on a scaffold, not otherwise specified in paragraphs (g)(1)(i) through (g)(1)(vi) of this section, more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above lower level was not protected from falls by the use of personal fall arrest systems or guardrail systems meeting the requirements of paragraph (g)(4) of this section:   Instance 1: On or about 03/01/2024, at 5990 S. University Drive, Davie, Florida, employees on a 3-tier scaffold installing masonry blocks and retrieving building lumber at a 7-11 gas station were exposed to 13.5 feet fall hazard due to lack of guardrails.  Instance 2: On or about 03/01/2024, at 5990 S. University Drive, Davie, Florida, an employee retrieving planks from an all terrain vehicle was exposed to a 13.5 feet fall hazard due to lack of guardrails.