OSHA Inspection: OSCAR LOPEZ

Issued

Apr 17, 2025

Penalty

Initial $2,837 · Current $2,837

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:  a)  At 3356 Quail Cove, Lot 8 National Village Quail Hollow, Opelika, Alabama:  On March 26, 2025; the employer allowed his employees to operate pneumatic nail guns without eye protection while performing framing activities exposing his employees to struck-by hazards.

Issued

Apr 17, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,547 · Current $3,547

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(b)(2): Except as provided in paragraphs (b)(2)(i) and (b)(2)(ii) of this section, each scaffold platform and/or walkway was not at least 18 inches (46 cm) wide:  a)  At 3356 Quail Cove, Lot 8 National Village Quail Hollow, Opelika, Alabama:  On March 26, 2025; the employer allowed his employees to perform framing activities from a job made scaffold with a work platform that measured 10 inches wide exposing his employees to a fall hazard of 22 feet 8 inches to the ground below.

Issued

Apr 17, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(g)(1): Employees on scaffolds more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level by fall protection established in paragraphs (g)(1)(i)-(vii) of this section:  a)  At 3356 Quail Cove, Lot 8 National Village Quail Hollow, Opelika, Alabama:  On March 26, 2025; the employer allowed his employees to perform framing activities from a job made scaffold without fall protection exposing his employees to a fall hazard of 22 feet 8 inches to the ground below.

Issued

Apr 17, 2025

Abate by

May 1, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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)  At 3356 Quail Cove, Lot 8 National Village Quail Hollow, Opelika, Alabama:  On March 26, 2025; the employer allowed his employees to perform framing activities from a job made scaffold without first ensuring his employees were trained on the hazards associated with scaffolds to include but not limited erecting and inspecting scaffolds exposing his employees to a fall hazard of 22 feet 8 inches to the ground below.

Issued

Apr 17, 2025

Penalty

Initial $2,837 · Current $2,837

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.501(b)(13):Each employee(s) engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet (1.8 m) or more above lower levels were not protected by guardrail systems, safety net system, or personal fall arrest system, nor were employee(s) provided with an alternative fall protection measure under another provision of paragraph 1926.501 (b):   a)  At 3356 Quail Cove, Lot 8 National Village Quail Hollow, Opelika, Alabama:  On March 26, 2025; the employer allowed his employees to perform framing activities without fall protection exposing his employees to a fall hazard of 9 feet 11 inches to the floor below.

Issued

Apr 17, 2025

Abate by

May 1, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.503(a)(1): The employer did not provide a training program for each employee potentially exposed to fall hazards to enable each employee to recognize the hazards of falling and the procedures to be followed in order to minimize these hazards:   a)  At 3356 Quail Cove, Lot 8 National Village Quail Hollow, Opelika, Alabama:  On March 26, 2025; the employer allowed his employees to perform framing activities without first ensuring his employees were trained on the hazards associated with falls to include but not limited to setting up and inspecting fall protection exposing his employees to a fall hazard of 9 feet 11 inches to the ground below.

Issued

Apr 17, 2025

Penalty

Initial $2,837 · Current $2,837

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1053(b)(1): Where portable ladders were used for access to an upper landing surface and the ladder's length allows, the ladder side rails did not extend at least 3 feet (.9 m) above the upper landing surface being accessed:  a)  At 3356 Quail Cove, Lot 8 National Village Quail Hollow, Opelika, Alabama:  On March 26, 2025; the employer allowed his employees to use an extension ladder to gain access to the roof and the rails of the ladder did not extend three feet above the roof landing to provide safe access exposing his employees to a fall hazard of 11 feet 11 inches to the ground below.