OSHA Inspection: HEINE BROTHERS TUCKPOINTING, INC.

Issued

2024-08-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4839.00 · Current $484.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(b)(1): Each platform on all working levels of scaffolds had not been fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports.  On or about March 22, 2024, HEINE BROTHERS TUCKPOINTING, INC. did not ensure that each platform on working levels of a prefabricated frame scaffold, in a worksite at 71 Crestwood Drive in Clayton, Missouri, was fully planked or decked between the front uprights and the guardrail supports. Two employees were exposed to fall hazards from tuckpointing and repairing the chimney of a residential building from platforms that were not fully planked.

Issued

2024-08-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(g)(4)(ii): The top edge height of toprails or equivalent member on supported scaffolds manufactured or placed in service after January 1, 2000, had not been installed between 38 inches (0.97 m) and 45 inches (1.2 m) above the platform surface. The top edge height on supported scaffolds manufactured and placed in service before January 1, 2000, had not been between 36 inches (0.9 m) and 45 inches (1.2 m).  On or about March 22, 2024, HEINE BROTHERS TUCKPOINTING, INC. did not ensure that guardrails served as adequate fall protection for two employees tuckpointing a residential building at 71 Crestwood Drive in Clayton, Missouri. Crossbracing served as midrails, and no toprails were installed thus exposing two employees to fall hazards from heights of approximately 30 feet.

Issued

2024-08-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4839.00 · Current $484.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.501(b)(1): Each employee on a walking/working surface with an unprotected side or edge which had been 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above a lower level had not been protected from falling by the use of guardrail systems, safety net systems, or personal fall arrest systems.  On or about March 22, 2024, HEINE BROTHERS TUCKPOINTING, INC. did not ensure that an employee working from the roof, above 6 feet, at 71 Crestwood Drive in Clayton, Missouri, was protected by guardrail systems, safety net system, or personal fall arrest systems, or an alternative fall protection measure under another provision of paragraph 1926.501(b). At least one employee was exposed to elevated fall hazards while working from the roof, at heights of approximately 30 feet, without fall protection, to repair the chimney of a residential building.

Issued

2024-08-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1053(b)(4): Ladders had not been used only for the purpose for which they were designed.  On or about March 22, 2024,  HEINE BROTHERS TUCKPOINTING, INC. did not ensure that a portable ladder had been used for the purpose for which it was designed. At least one employee utilized a portable ladder on the roof of a residential building at 71 Crestwood Drive in Clayton, Missouri, as a crawling board (chicken ladder) to repair a chimney at heights of approximately 30 feet thus exposing the employee to fall hazards.

Issued

2024-08-21 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-10-08 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4839.00 · Current $484.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.503(a)(1): The employer had not provided a training program for each employee who might have been exposed to fall hazards. Such a program would have enabled each employee to recognize the hazards of falling and would have trained each employee in the procedures to be followed in order to minimize these hazards.  On or about March 22, 2024, HEINE BROTHERS TUCKPOINTING, INC. did not provide a training program for two employees who were exposed to fall hazards while tuckpointing from scaffolding, repairing a chimney from the roof of a residential building, and misusing a ladder on the roof of a residential building in a worksite at 71 Crestwood Drive in Clayton, Missouri. The training program would have enabled the employees to recognize fall hazards, and it would have trained each employee in the procedures to minimize fall hazards.

Issued

2024-08-21 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-10-08 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.454(a): The employer had not had each employee who performed work while on a scaffold had been 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. The training would have included the areas identified in (1) through (5) of this paragraph.   On or about March 22, 2024, HEINE BROTHERS TUCKPOINTING, INC. did not ensure that each employee who worked from a prefabricated frame scaffold in a worksite at 71 Crestwood Drive in Clayton, Missouri, was trained by a qualified person to recognize the hazards associated with supported frame scaffolds and to understand the procedures to minimize such hazards. The training shall include (a)(1) the nature of electrical hazards, fall hazards, and falling object hazards in the work area;  (a)(2) the correct procedures for dealing with electrical hazards and for erecting, maintaining, and disassembling the fall protection systems and falling object protection systems being used; (a)(3) the proper use of the scaffold and the proper handling of materials on the scaffold; (a)(4) the maximum intended load and the load-carrying capacities of the scaffold used; (a)(5) and any other pertinent requirements of this subpart.

Issued

2024-08-21 00:00:00

Abate by

2024-10-08 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.454(b): The employer had not ensured that each employee who is involved in erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, maintaining, or inspecting a scaffold trained by a competent person to recognize any hazards associated with the work in question. The training should have included the following topics (1) through (4) of this subsection.  On or about March 22, 2024, HEINE BROTHERS TUCKPOINTING did not ensure that two employees who were involved in activities including but not limited to erecting, disassembling, moving, and inspecting a prefabricated frame scaffold were trained by a competent person to recognize any hazards associated with the work in question. The training shall cover (1) the nature of scaffold hazards; (2) the correct procedures for erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, inspecting, and maintaining the type of scaffold in question; (3) the design criteria, maximum intended load-carrying capacity and intended use of the scaffold; and (4) any other pertinent requirements of this subpart.

Issued

2024-08-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3457.00 · Current $346.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1904.39(a)(2): Within twenty-four (24) hours after the in-patient hospitalization of one or more employees or an employee's amputation or an employee's loss of an eye, as a result of a work-related incident, you had not reported the in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye to OSHA.  On or about March 22, 2024, HEINE BROTHERS TUCKPOINTING INC. did not report the in-patient hospitalization of an employee, as a result of a work-related incident, to OSHA within twenty-four (24) hours.