OSHA Inspection: D & M MASONRY, INC.

Issued

Mar 3, 2025

Penalty

Initial $2,653 · Current $2,122 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): The employer did not ensure that each affected employee used 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) New commercial construction located at 5995 H F Reed Industrial Parkway, Flowery Branch, GA 30542: On or about 02/25/2025, the employer exposed employees to struck-by hazards during brick laying/ brick cutting operations in-that protective eyewear was not worn.

Issued

Mar 3, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,121 · Current $2,497 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.  Cross braces were used as a means of access.  a) New Commercial construction located at 5990 H F Reed Industrial Parkway, Flowery Branch, GA 30542:  On or about 02/25/2025, the employer exposed employees to fall hazards of approximately 4-feet while accessing and egressing the roof from the scaffold in that a proper ladder was not installed requiring the workers to climb the framework to the scaffold extension then to the roof.

Issued

Mar 3, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,121 · Current $2,497 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(1): Each employee on a scaffold was not provided with additional protection from falling hand tools, debris, and other small objects through the installation of toeboards, screens, guardrail systems, or through the erection of debris nets, catch platforms, or canopy structures that contain or deflect the falling objects.  For falling objects too large, heavy or massive to be contained or deflected, the employer did not place and secure such potential falling objects away from the edge of the surface from which they could fall.  a) New Commercial construction site located at 5990 H F Reed Industrial Parkway, Flowery Branch, GA 30542: On or about 02/25/2025, the employer exposed employees to struck-by hazards from 13-feet above the lower level from tools and equipment including but not limited to bricks, in-that a toe board was not installed around all exposed edges of the walking working surface(s)

Issued

Mar 3, 2025

Penalty

Initial $8,322 · Current $6,658 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(4)(i): Guardrail systems were not installed along all open sides and ends of platforms.   a) New commercial construction located at 5995 H F Reed Industrial Parkway, Flowery Branch, GA 30542: On or about 02/25/2025 the employer exposed employees to fall hazards of up to 13-feet to the lower level during brick laying operations in-that guardrails were not provided throughout the scaffold including but not limited to the unprotected section at the mortar pan/brick unloading area.  D & M Masonry, Inc. was previously cited for a violation of this occupational safety and health standard or its equivalent standard (name previously cited standard), which was contained in OSHA inspection number 1564059, citation number 2, item number 2 and was affirmed as a final order on 01/18/2022, with respect to a workplace located at 3200 South Cherokee Lane Woodstock, 30188.