OSHA Inspection: AMERICAN DEMOLITION

Issued

2012-01-09 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1377.00 · Current $1000.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.56(a):  Construction area, ramps, runways, corridors, offices, shaps, and storage areas shall be lighted to not less than the minimum illumination intensities listed in Table D-3 while any work is in progress:      a)  On or about October 19, 2011, and at times prior, employees were exposed to trips and falls because the employer had not provided sufficient lighting in areas where employees were performing demolition and gathering debris.  A large portion of the active construction area had an illumination intensity of 1 foot candle or less.

Issued

2012-01-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-01-19 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.405(a)(2)(ii)(E):  All lamps for general illumination shall be protected from accidental contact or breakage:    a)  On or about October 19, 2011, and at times prior, employees were exposed shock or fire hazards because the employer did not ensure that the bulbs in the temporary lighting strung along the walls were protected by cages or other equivalent means.

Issued

2012-01-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-02-08 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c)(2)(ii):  The employer did not establish and implement those elements of a written respiratory protection program necessary to ensure that any employee using a respirator voluntarily was medically able to use that respirator, and that the respirator was cleaned, stored and maintained so that its use did not present a health hazard to the user:    a)  On or about October 19, 2011, and at times prior, the employer did not establish a written respiratory protection program and provide training to employees who voluntarily used respirators to protect themselves from asbestos fibers while performing demolition activities.  Employees used both filtering facepieces and elastomeric half-face respirators with HEPA filters without being provided medical evaluations and basic training in respirator use, cleaning, storage and maintenance which ensured that the use of the respirators themselves did not present a health hazard to the employees.

Issued

2012-01-09 00:00:00

Abate by

2012-01-17 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1101(k)(9)(vi):  Training for employees performing Class IV operations was not consistent with EPA requirements for training of local education agency maintenance and custodial staff as set forth at 40 CFR 763.92(a)(1).  Such a course shall include available information concerning the locations of thermal system insulation and surfacing ACM/PACM, and asbestos-containing flooring material, or flooring material where the absence of asbestos has not yet been certified; and instruction in recognition of damage, deterioration, and delamination of asbestos containing building materials.  Such course shall take at least 2 hours:    a)  On or about October 19, 2011, and at times prior, the employer did not provide effective, 2 hour Class IV training to all employees that could have potentially contacted asbestos on a demolition site where asbestos was present.