OSHA Inspection: GG GENERAL CONSTRUCTION INC.

Issued

Jul 17, 2025

Abate by

Aug 21, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,547 · Current $1,500 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.20(b)(1):The employer did not initiate and maintain such programs as may be necessary to comply with this part.  a. Site - The employer did not have an adequate accident prevention program to eliminate and minimize risk and hazards.

Issued

Jul 17, 2025

Abate by

Aug 21, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.20(b)(2):The employer did not initiate and maintain programs which provided for frequent and regular inspections of the job site, materials and equipment to be made by a competent person(s):  a. Site - The employer did not conduct adequate frequent and regular inspections to identify hazards, including but not limited to, those associated with falls, struck by hazards, personal protective equipment, and structural capacities.

Issued

Jul 17, 2025

Abate by

Aug 21, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.21(b)(2):The employer did not instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his/her environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury:  a. Site - The employer did not provide adequate training to prevent injuries, including but not limited to those associated with falls, struck by hazards, and crushing hazards.

Issued

Jul 17, 2025

Abate by

Aug 21, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.454(b): The employer did not have each employee involved in erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, maintaining, or inspecting a scaffold trained by a competent person to recognize any hazards associated with the work in question:  a. Site - The employer did not provide adequate training related to the correct procedures for erecting, operating, repairing, inspecting, and maintaining scaffolding.

Issued

Jul 17, 2025

Abate by

Aug 21, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1060(a): The employer did not provide a training program for each employee using ladders and stairways, as necessary, which would train each employee in the procedures to be followed to minimize hazards related to ladders and stairways:   a. Site - The employer did not adequately train employees related to ladder safety.

Issued

Jul 17, 2025

Abate by

Jul 23, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,547 · Current $1,500 Reduced

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:  a. Site - Employees working in areas beneath others where an overhead hazard was present were not provided with head protection

Issued

Jul 17, 2025

Abate by

Jul 23, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1):  The employer did not ensure that each affected employee uses 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:  Jobsite - The employer did not ensure that eye protective equipment was used when employees were exposed to eye injury while using pneumatic nail guns.

Issued

Jul 17, 2025

Abate by

Jul 23, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

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:  a. Site - Employees working from the ladder jack scaffolds were not adequately protected from falls greater than 10 feet.

Issued

Jul 17, 2025

Abate by

Jul 23, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(b)(4): Each end of a platform, unless cleated or otherwise restrained by hooks or equivalent means, did not extend over the centerline of its support at least 6 inches (15 cm).  a.  Site - The ladder jack scaffold platform along the side of the house did not extend at least 6 inches over the support.

Issued

Jul 17, 2025

Abate by

Jul 23, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(b)(5)(ii):The end of a platform greater than 10 feet in length extended over its support more than 18 inches and the platform was not designed and installed so that the cantilevered portion of the platform is able to support employees without tipping, or has guardrails which block employee access to the cantilevered end:  a. Site - The ladder jack scaffold platforms which were greater than 10 feet in length did not have their platforms designed and installed to secure the cantilevered portion of the platform.

Issued

Jul 17, 2025

Abate by

Jul 23, 2025

Penalty

Initial $3,547 · Current $1,500 Reduced

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. Site - Ladders used to access the scaffold did not extend at least 3 feet above the upper landing surface.

Issued

Jul 17, 2025

Abate by

Jul 23, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

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.:  Jobsite - Employees were exposed to a fall of approximately 11 feet and 20 feet where access to the ladder jack scaffold was not provided and employees were climbing over the platform to use the support ladder for access / egress from the scaffold.