OSHA Inspection: CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES, LLC

Issued

Jun 25, 2025

Abate by

Aug 1, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,547 · Current $1,775 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 12/26/2024, at 999 SW 5th Street, Boca Raton, Florida, employees installing a window on a 2-story townhome were exposed to a 13.5 foot fall hazard while working from a scaffold that was not fully planked.

Issued

Jun 25, 2025

Abate by

Aug 1, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,547 · Current $1,775 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(c)(1)(iii): Ties, guys, braces, or outriggers were not installed to prevent the tipping of supported scaffolds in all circumstances where an eccentric load, such as a cantilevered work platform, was applied or was transmitted to the scaffold:  On or about 12/26/2024, at 999 SW 5th Street, Boca Raton, Florida, an employee installing a window on a 2-story townhome was exposed to a 13.5 foot fall hazard from a bakers scaffold due to lack of outriggers.

Issued

Jun 25, 2025

Abate by

Aug 1, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,547 · Current $1,775 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames, and uprights did not bear on base plates and mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:     On or about 12/26/2024, at 999 SW 5th Street, Boca Raton, Florida, employees installing a window on a 2-story townhome were exposed to a 13.5 foot fall hazard on the scaffold due to lack of baseplates.

Issued

Jun 25, 2025

Abate by

Aug 1, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,547 · Current $1,775 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 12/26/2024, at 999 SW 5th Street, Boca Raton, Florida, employees installing a window on a 2-story townhome were exposed to a 13.5 foot fall hazard while working from a scaffold that did not have a safe means of access such as a ladder.

Issued

Jun 25, 2025

Abate by

Aug 1, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,547 · Current $1,775 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 12/26/2024, at 999 SW 5th Street, Boca Raton, Florida, the employer did not ensure that there was a competent person in scaffold erection during the task of installing a window on a 2-story townhome, which exposed employees to a 13.5 feet fall hazard.

Issued

Jun 25, 2025

Abate by

Aug 1, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,547 · Current $1,775 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:   On or about 12/26/2024, at 999 SW 5th Street, Boca Raton, Florida, an employee installing a window on a 2-story townhome was exposed to a 13.5 foot fall hazard on the scaffold due to lack of guardrails.

Issued

Jun 25, 2025

Abate by

Aug 1, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,547 · Current $1,775 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.452(w)(2): Scaffold casters and wheels were not locked with positive wheel and/or wheel and swivel locks, or equivalent means, to prevent movement of the scaffold while the scaffold was used in a stationary manner:   On or about 12/26/2024, at 999 SW 5th Street, Boca Raton, Florida, an employee installing a window on a 2-story townhome was exposed to a 13.5 foot fall hazard on the scaffold due to defective casters.

Issued

Jun 25, 2025

Abate by

Aug 1, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,547 · Current $1,775 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.502(d)(8): Horizontal lifelines were not designed, installed, and used under the supervision of a qualified person, as part of a complete personal fall arrest system, which maintained a safety factor of at least two:   On or about 12/26/2024, at 999 SW 5th Street, Boca Raton, Florida, employees were exposed to fall hazards of 13.5 feet while using a self-absorbing lanyard that was connected to two lifelines with a knot on a horizontal fall protection system, which was not designed, installed or used under the supervision of a qualified person.

Issued

Jun 25, 2025

Abate by

Aug 1, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,547 · Current $1,775 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.502(d)(16)(iii): Personal fall arrest systems, when stopping a fall, were not rigged such that an employee could not free fall more than 6 feet (1.8 m) nor contact any lower level:   On or about 12/26/2024, at 999 SW 5th Street, Boca Raton, Florida, employees were exposed to fall hazards due to connecting a lanyard to a lifeline that was rigged in a manner that was not preventing an employee to strike the ground from the 2nd tier of the bakers scaffold that was approximately 13.5 feet above the ground level.

Issued

Jun 25, 2025

Abate by

Aug 1, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,547 · Current $1,775 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1052(c)(1)(ii): Stairways having four or more risers or rising more than 30 inches (76 cm), whichever is less, were not equipped with a stair rail system along each unprotected side or edge:   On or about 12/26/2024, at 999 SW 5th Street, Boca Raton, Florida, employees were exposed to fall hazards when ascending and descending a staircase that did not have a stair rail system installed.