OSHA Inspection: BATISTA ROOFING AND VINYL SIDING, INC.

Issued

Dec 29, 2025

Penalty

Initial $4,965 · Current $4,965

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.  Location: Job site;  On or about 09/08/2025, employees were permitted to work from a ladder jack scaffold platform greater than 10-feet in length that extended more than 18-inches beyond one of its supports.

Issued

Dec 29, 2025

Penalty

Initial $4,965 · Current $4,965

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.  Crossbraces were used as a means of access.  Location: Job site;  On or about 09/08/2025, employees were not provided with an appropriate means of access to ladder jack scaffold platforms that were more than 2 feet above the point of access. Employees were using the ladders that were part of the ladder jack system to gain access to the scaffold platforms.

Issued

Dec 29, 2025

Penalty

Initial $4,965 · Current $4,965

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(i): Each employee on a ladder jack scaffold was not protected by a personal fall arrest system.  Location: Job site;  On or about 09/08/2025, employees were allowed to perform roofing work while working from ladder jack scaffolds that were 18-feet or more above the ground without the use of personal fall arrest systems.

Issued

Dec 29, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(iii): Each employee on a crawling board (chicken ladder) was not protected by a personal fall arrest system, a guardrail system (with minimum 200 pound toprail capacity), or by a three-fourth inch (1.9 cm) diameter grabline or equivalent handhold securely fastened beside each crawling board.  Location: Job site;  On or about 09/08/2025, employees performing roofing work were using a crawling board at the rear of the house approximately 18 feet above the ground without a personal fall arrest system, guardrail system, or a grabline or equivalent handhold securely fastened beside the crawling board.

Issued

Dec 29, 2025

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(vii): Each employee on a scaffold, not otherwise specified in paragraphs (g)(1)(i) through (g)(1)(vi) of this section, more than 10 feet (3.1 m) above lower level was not protected from falls by the use of personal fall arrest systems or guardrail systems meeting the requirements of paragraph (g)(4) of this section.  Location: Job site;  On or about 09/08/2025, employees were allowed to work from roof jack scaffolds erected more than 18-feet above the ground below and did not utilize any form of fall protection.

Issued

Dec 29, 2025

Penalty

Initial $4,965 · Current $4,965

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(k)(5): Ladder jack scaffold platforms were bridged one to another.  Location: Job site;  On or about 09/08/2025, the employer allowed ladder jack scaffold platform sections to be bridged together, with a wooden plank section resting on the metal platform section of an adjacent ladder jack scaffold system.

Issued

Dec 29, 2025

Abate by

Feb 17, 2026

Penalty

Initial $4,965 · Current $4,965

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.  Location: Job site;  On or about 09/08/2025, employees who had not been trained by a qualified person in the hazards and safe use of ladder jack scaffolds were allowed to erect and work from ladder jack scaffolds without recognizing or correcting hazardous conditions present on the job site.

Issued

Dec 29, 2025

Abate by

Feb 17, 2026

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.454(b): The employer did not have each employee who was 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.  Location: Job site;  On or about 09/08/2025, employees on-site were allowed to erect and utilize ladder jack scaffolding and did not recognize hazardous conditions and deficiencies in the final assembled scaffolding units which they had put together on the job site. These hazardous conditions and structural deficiencies were visible from the roadway immediately outside of the job site.

Issued

Dec 29, 2025

Penalty

Initial $4,965 · Current $4,965

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13): Each employee 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).  Location: Job site;  On or about 09/08/2025, employees were allowed to perform roofing work on a residential roof that was approximately 18-feet above the next lower level without any form of fall protection, such as guardrails, safety nets, or alternative protective measures.