OSHA Inspection: A-CLASS CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION

Issued

Feb 14, 2025

Abate by

Mar 6, 2025

Penalty

Initial $5,202 · Current $5,202

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.1200(e)(1): The employer did not develop, implement, and/or maintain at the workplace a written hazard communication program which describes how the criteria specified in 29 CFR 1910.1200(f), (g), and (h) will be met:  a) Jobsite: 2250 E Cambria St, Philadelphia, PA 19134 - On or about August 17, 2024, a written Hazard Communication Program was not developed or implemented where employees were exposed to hazardous chemicals known to cause skin burns, eye damage, and damage to the respiratory system, such as, but not limited to, Portland Cement, Calcium Oxide Silicate, Silicic Acid, Aluminum Calcium Oxide, Magnesium Oxide, Aluminum Calcium Iron Oxide, and Crystaline Silica contained in the Lehigh White Masonry Cement Type N while conducting masonry operations.

Issued

Feb 14, 2025

Abate by

Mar 6, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.1200(g)(8): The employer did not maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical, and did not ensure that they were readily accessible during each work  shift to employees when they were in their work area(s):  a) Jobsite: 2250 E Cambria St, Philadelphia, PA 19134 - On or about August 17, 2024, the employer did not ensure that safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical in the workplace known to cause skin burns, eye damage, and damage to the respiratory system, including but not limited to Portland Cement, Calcium Oxide Silicate, Silicic Acid, Aluminum Calcium Oxide, Magnesium Oxide, Aluminum Calcium Iron Oxide, and Crystaline Silica contained in the Lehigh White Masonry Cement Type N were maintained in the workplace.

Issued

Feb 14, 2025

Abate by

Mar 6, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1910.1200(h)(1): Employees were not provided effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment and whenever a new hazard that the employees had not been previously trained about was introduced into their work area:  a) Jobsite: 2250 E Cambria St, Philadelphia, PA 19134 - On or about August 17, 2024, the employer did not provide hazardous chemical training for employees engaged in a bricklaying operation. Employees were not trained on the hazardous chemicals, including but not limited to Portland Cement, Calcium Oxide Silicate, Silicic Acid, Aluminum Calcium Oxide, Magnesium Oxide, Aluminum Calcium Iron Oxide, and Crystaline Silica contained in the Lehigh White Masonry Cement Type N.

Issued

Feb 14, 2025

Abate by

Mar 6, 2025

Penalty

Initial $5,202 · Current $5,202

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.50(g): Where employees were exposed to injurious corrosive materials, suitable facilities for quick drenching or flushing of the eyes and body were not provided within the work area for immediate emergency use:  a) Jobsite: 2250 E Cambria St, Philadelphia, PA 19134 - On or about August 17, 2024, the employer did not ensure employees conducting masonry operations with corrosive materials such as, but not limited to Lehigh White Masonry Cement Type N mix were provided with an effective eyewash facility with continuous water supply within the work area for immediate emergencies.

Issued

Feb 14, 2025

Abate by

Mar 6, 2025

Penalty

Initial $7,282 · Current $7,282

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.95(a): Protective equipment, including personal protective equipment for eyes, face, head, and extremities, protective clothing, respiratory devices, and protective shields and barriers, were not provided:  a) Jobsite: 2250 E Cambria St, Philadelphia, PA 19134 - On or about August 17, 2024, the employer did not ensure employees used appropriate hand protection when conducting an activity that exposed them to an electrical hazard capable of causing injury to the hands, such as electrical burns. Employees were erecting the 5th and 6th levels of a supported tubular welded frame scaffold within 6 inches laterally from an energized, unguarded and ungrounded 13.2kv Primary power line.

Issued

Feb 14, 2025

Abate by

Mar 6, 2025

Penalty

Initial $5,202 · Current $5,202

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.  a) Jobsite: 2250 E Cambria St, Philadelphia, PA 19134 - On or about August 17, 2024,  the employer did not ensure that an employee performing masonry activities underneath a scaffold and exposed to overhead hazards from falling objects such as, but not limited to, masonry bricks was protected by a protective helmet.

Issued

Feb 14, 2025

Abate by

Mar 6, 2025

Penalty

Initial $7,282 · Current $7,282

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.416(a)(3): The employer began work without determining if employees could contact any part of an energized circuit and did not post warning signs and advise employees of the location of the circuit, hazards, and protective measures they need to take:  Jobsite: 2250 E Cambria St, Philadelphia, PA 19134 - On or about August 17, 2024, employees were exposed to electrical hazards while erecting a scaffold approximately 6 inches from a  13.2kv overhead power line with no warning signs or protective measures to prevent contact.

Issued

Feb 14, 2025

Abate by

Mar 6, 2025

Penalty

Initial $5,202 · Current $5,202

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(b)(5)(i): The end of a platform 10 feet or less in length, extended over its support more than 12 inches.  a) Jobsite: 2250 E Cambria St, Philadelphia, PA 19134 - On or about August 17, 2024, employees were exposed to a fall hazard of 20 feet in height to ground level below, while conducting masonry work and the planks extended more than 12 inches beyond the support.

Issued

Feb 14, 2025

Abate by

Mar 6, 2025

Penalty

Initial $5,202 · Current $5,202

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(c)(1): Supported scaffolds with a height to base width (including outrigger supports, if used) ratio of more than four to one (4:1) were not restrained from tipping by guying, tying, bracing, or equivalent means, as set forth in subparagraphs (i) - (iii) of this paragraph:  a) Jobsite: 2250 E Cambria St, Philadelphia, PA 19134 - On or about August 17, 2024, employees were exposed to fall hazards between approximately 26 feet and 33 feet 2 inches in height while conducting brick laying from a scaffold that was not restrained from tipping.

Issued

Feb 14, 2025

Abate by

Mar 6, 2025

Penalty

Initial $5,202 · Current $5,202

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: 	 a) Jobsite: 2250 E Cambria St, Philadelphia, PA 19134 - On or about August 17, 2024, employees conducting masonry operations from the scaffold up to approximately 33 feet 2 inches above the ground level were not provided with a safe means of access.

Issued

Feb 14, 2025

Abate by

Mar 6, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(e)(6)(vi): Integral prefabricated scaffold access frames being used for access had a spacing greater than 16 3/4 inches:  a) Jobsite: 2250 E Cambria St, Philadelphia, PA 19134 - On or about August 17, 2024, the employer did not ensure the maximum spacing between the rungs on the integral prefabricated scaffold access frames of the supported tubular welded frame scaffold did not exceed 16 3/4 inches.  The spacing between the rungs on the integral prefabricated scaffold access frames used by employees to access the scaffold was approximately 20 inches, thereby exposing employees to fall hazards.

Issued

Feb 14, 2025

Abate by

Feb 25, 2025

Penalty

Initial $16,550 · Current $16,550

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.416(a)(1):The employer permitted employees to work in close proximity to energized, unguarded, and ungrounded electric power circuits that the employee could contact in the course of their work.  a) Jobsite: 2250 E Cambria St, Philadelphia, PA 19134 - On or about August 17, 2024, the employer exposed employees installing a brick facade on a 3-story residential building to electrical hazards by permitting them to work in proximity to a 13.2kv primary overhead power line without ensuring its circuit was effectively guarded.

Issued

Feb 14, 2025

Abate by

Mar 6, 2025

Penalty

Initial $16,550 · Current $16,550

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(f)(6): Scaffolds were erected, used, dismantled, altered, or moved such that they, or any conductive material handled on them, could have come closer than the minimum distances established for specific voltages as set forth in the table in subparagraph (f)(6):  a) Jobsite: 2250 E Cambria St, Philadelphia, PA 19134 - On or about August 17, 2024, employees were exposed to electrical hazards while erecting a scaffold approximately 6 inches from a 13.2kv overhead power line with no protective measures to prevent contact.

Issued

Feb 14, 2025

Abate by

Mar 6, 2025

Penalty

Initial $7,282 · Current $7,282

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.   Jobsite: 2250 E Cambria St, Philadelphia, PA 19134 - On or about August 17, the employer did not ensure that the supported tubular welded frame scaffold was erected under the supervision of a competent person qualified in scaffold erection, thereby exposing employees to fall and electrical hazards:  a) By not providing fall protection for employees conducting a brick face operation from the 5th and 6th levels of the scaffold, between approximately 26 feet and 33 feet 2 inches above the ground level, who were exposed to fall hazards.  b) By not erecting the scaffold at least 10 feet away from an uninsulated 13.2kV primary overhead power line.

Issued

Feb 14, 2025

Abate by

Mar 6, 2025

Penalty

Initial $16,550 · Current $16,550

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:  a) Jobsite: 2250 E Cambria St, Philadelphia, PA 19134 - On or about August 17, 2024, the employer did not ensure employees conducting a masonry operation from the outrigger and main working platforms on the 5th level and 6th levels of the supported tubular welded frame scaffold, approximately 26 feet and 33 feet 2 inches above the ground level, were protected from falls by the use of a fall protection system.

Issued

Feb 14, 2025

Abate by

Mar 6, 2025

Penalty

Initial $7,282 · Current $7,282

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(h)(2)(ii): A toeboard was not erected along the edge of platforms more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above lower levels for a distance sufficient to protect employees below.   a) Jobsite: 2250 E Cambria St, Philadelphia, PA 19134 - On or about August 17, 2024,  the employer did not ensure toeboards were erected along the edges of the working platforms greater than 10 feet above the ground level.  Three employees were conducting a brick facade operation from the working platform on the 5th level of the scaffold approximately 26 feet 10 inches above the ground level, which did not contain toeboards, thereby exposing an employee on the ground level mixing mortar  to struck-by hazards.

Issued

Feb 14, 2025

Abate by

Mar 6, 2025

Penalty

Initial $5,202 · Current $5,202

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.452(c)(2): Frames and panels were not braced by cross, horizontal, or diagonal braces, or combination thereof, which would secure vertical members together laterally, and the cross braces were not of such length as would  automatically square:  a) Jobsite: 2250 E Cambria St, Philadelphia, PA 19134 - On or about August 17, 2024, the employer did not ensure the vertical members on the 3rd level of the supported tubular welded frame scaffold, used by employees to conduct a brick fa�ade operation approximately 26 feet 10 inches above the ground level, were secured laterally, squared, and aligned by the installation of cross, horizontal, or diagonal braces, or combination thereof, thus exposing the employees to scaffold collapse hazards.

Issued

Feb 14, 2025

Abate by

Mar 6, 2025

Penalty

Initial $7,282 · Current $7,282

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.454(a): The employer did not have each employee who performed work while on a scaffold 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:  a) Jobsite: 2250 E Cambria St, Philadelphia, PA 19134 - On or about August 17, 2024, the employer did not train employees conducting a brick fa�ade operation from the 5th and 6th levels of a supported tubular welded frame scaffold, who were exposed to fall hazards of up to approximately 33' 2", to recognize the hazards associated with working from scaffolds and to understand the procedures to control or minimize those hazards.

Issued

Feb 14, 2025

Abate by

Mar 6, 2025

Penalty

Initial $10,404 · Current $10,404

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.102(a)(1): The employer shall ensure that each affected employee uses appropriate eye or face protection when exposed to eye or face hazards from flying particles, molten metal, liquid chemicals, acids or caustic liquids, chemical gases or vapors, or potentially injurious light radiation:  a) Jobsite: 2250 E Cambria St, Philadelphia, PA 19134 - On or about August 17, 2024, the employer permitted an employee to use a DeWalt Carbon Fiber Composite Hammer Tacker during bricklaying operations without the use of eye protection exposing the employee to flying object hazards and hazardous chemicals such as Lehigh White Masonry Cement Type N, which is identified as a corrosive material.  A-Class Construction was previously cited for a violation of this Occupational Safety and Health Standard, which was contained in OSHA inspection number 1675023, citation number 1, item number 1, and was affirmed as a final order on 12/29/2023, with respect to a workplace located at 859-869 Communipaw Avenue, Jersey City, NJ.