OSHA Inspection: GTO CONSTRUCTION, LLC

Issued

2025-02-04 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-02-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3783.00 · Current $3783.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.100(a): Employees working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns, were not protected by protective helmets:  On or about August 14, 2024, at the front left side of the hotel building, employees worked from scaffold platforms and did not wear protective helmets during scaffold dismantling.

Issued

2025-02-04 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-02-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3783.00 · Current $3783.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(9)(i): The employer did not provide safe means of access for each employee erecting or dismantling a scaffold.  On or about August 14, 2024, at the front left side of the hotel building, a safe means of scaffold access was not provided to employees who worked at the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd scaffold platforms to dismantle the 4-tier scaffold.

Issued

2025-02-04 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-02-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3783.00 · Current $3783.00

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 August 14, 2024, and at times prior thereto, at the front left side of the hotel building, employees worked from the 2nd and 3rd tier scaffold platforms to dismantle the scaffold and were not under the supervision and direction of a scaffold competent person qualified in scaffold erection and dismantling in that tape secured a scaffold cross brace to a scaffold end frame.

Issued

2025-02-04 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-02-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(c): The employer had reason to believe that an employee lacked the skill or understanding needed for safe work involving the erection, use or dismantling of scaffolds, and the employer did not retrain such employee so that the requisite proficiency was regained  On or about August 14, 2024, at the front left side of the hotel building, employees demonstrated a lack of understanding on proper erection, use, and dismantling of a supported scaffold and were not re-trained.  Employees worked at scaffold platforms to dismantle the upper level of the 4-tier scaffold.

Issued

2025-02-04 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-02-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3783.00 · Current $3783.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(g)(4)(vii):Each top rail or equivalent member of a guardrail system was not capable of withstanding, without failure, a force applied in any downward or horizontal direction at any point along its top edge of at least 100 pounds (445 n) for guardrail systems installed on single-point adjustable suspension scaffolds or two-point adjustable suspension scaffolds, and at least 200 pounds (890 n) for guardrail systems installed on all other scaffolds.  On or about August 14, 2024, at the front left side of the hotel building, a cross brace used as a guardrail at the 3rd tier scaffold platform was secured by tape to a scaffold frame which did not ensure the guardrail would withstand a force applied in any downward or horizontal direction at any point along the cross brace of at least 200 pounds.  Employees worked at scaffold platforms to dismantle the upper level of the 4-tier scaffold.

Issued

2025-02-04 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-02-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $3783.00 · Current $3783.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.453(b)(2)(v): A body belt was not worn and/or a lanyard was not attached to the boom or basket when working from an aerial lift.  On or about August 14, 2024, at the front of the hotel building, an employee in an aerial lift basket was not in use of fall protection and was not attached to the boom or basket of the aerial lift during exterior painting operations.