OSHA Inspection: VSNY GENERAL CONSTRUCTION

Issued

Aug 19, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,405 · Current $3,405

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.100(a):Employees were not protected by protective helmets while working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or from falling or flying objects, or electrical shock and burns:  a) Tubular welded pipe scaffold, 2nd tier: Employee without head protection was working below other employee that was removing wooden siding, on or about 5/8/25.

Issued

Aug 19, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,405 · Current $3,405

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.102(a)(2):29 CFR 1926.102(a)(2): Eye and face protection equipment did not meet the requirements of ANSI Z87.1-1968, Practice for Occupational and Educational Eye and Face Protection:   a) Tubular welded pipe scaffold:  An employee was exposed to eye injuries while removing wooding siding without the use of eye protection, on or about 5/8/25.

Issued

Aug 19, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,972 · Current $3,972

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) Tubular welded pipe scaffold: Employees were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 12 to 20 feet to the ground below while working on a pipe scaffold that was not fully planked, on or about 5/8/25.

Issued

Aug 19, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,972 · Current $3,972

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(c)(2)(i):Footings were not level, sound, rigid, and capable of supporting the loaded scaffold without settling or displacement:  a) Tubular welded pips scaffold: Employees were permitted to work on a tubular welded pipe scaffold systems as high as 20 feet above a lower  level that were not level and sound rigid footing, on or about 5/8/25.

Issued

Aug 19, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,972 · Current $3,972

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(e)(1):A means of access for scaffold platforms more than 2 feet (0.6 m) above or below a point of access, such as 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 another scaffold, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used.  a) Tubular welded pipe scaffold: Employees did not have a means of access to the scaffold platforms. Employees were using the scaffold frames as a means of access exposing themselves to a fall hazard, on or about 5/8/25

Issued

Aug 19, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,972 · Current $3,972

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(g)(1):29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1):  Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet above a lower level was not protected from falling to that lower level by fall protection established in accordance with paragraphs (g)(1)(i) through (vii) of this section:    a) Tubular welded pipe scaffold: Employees were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 12 to 20 feet while working from a pipe scaffold without the use of fall protection or any other means of fall protection in place, on or 5/8/25.

Issued

Aug 19, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,972 · Current $3,972

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.452(a)(2): Crossbracing was not installed between the inner and outer sets of poles on double pole scaffolds:  a) Tubular welded pipe scaffold: Employees were working on  a tubular welded pipe scaffold that the inner crossbracing were missing, on or about 5/8/25