OSHA Inspection: NJR MASONRY LLC

Issued

Apr 11, 2025

Penalty

Initial $5,675 · Current $5,675

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): The employer did not ensure employees used eye and face protection equipment when machines or operations presented potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents:  a) Pipe scaffold: Employees were exposed to eye injuries while laying block and mortar without the use of eye protection, on or about 1/13/25

Issued

Apr 11, 2025

Penalty

Initial $6,620 · Current $6,620

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(b)(1):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:  a) Scaffold platform: Employees were exposed to fall hazard while working on a pipe scaffold with missing planks or decks, on or about 1/13/25.

Issued

Apr 11, 2025

Penalty

Initial $6,620 · Current $6,620

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) Pipe scaffold, Elevator shaft: Employees were exposed to a fall hazard while accessing the scaffold platforms without the use of portable ladders, attachable ladders, stair tower ramps, walkways or integral prefabricated scaffold access, on or about 1/13/25.

Issued

Apr 11, 2025

Penalty

Initial $6,620 · Current $6,620

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above a lower level shall be protected from falling to that lower level. Paragraphs (g)(1)(i) through (vii) of this section establish the types of fall protection to be provided to the employees on each type of scaffold. Paragraph (g)(2) of this section addresses fall protection for scaffold erectors and dismantlers.  a) Tubular welded pipe scaffold/ elevator shaft: Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above a lower level was not protected from falling as required. Employees were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 32 feet to the concrete below, on or about 1/13/25.

Issued

Apr 11, 2025

Penalty

Initial $6,620 · Current $6,620

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.701(b):1926.701(b):  All protruding reinforcing steel, onto and into which employees could fall, was not guarded to eliminate the hazard of impalement:  a) steel beams below pipe scaffold: Employee were exposed to impalement while working on a tubular welded pipe scaffold and there were uncapped steel rebars welded on the steel beam below the pipe scaffold, on or about 1/13/25.