OSHA Inspection: AMERICA CONTRACTORS, LLC

Issued

2015-04-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $2000.00

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) Preserve at Montgomery, Lot 69, Worksite - on or about April 7, 2015, employees are installing siding from a pump jack scaffold, approximately 21 feet above grade, where the pole ends were not set upon level, rigid, or sound footing.

Issued

2015-04-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(f)(1): Scaffolds and scaffold components shall not be loaded in excess of their maximum intended loads or rated capacities, whichever is less.  a) Preserve at Montgomery, Lot 69, Worksite - on or about April 7, 2015, two employees are installing siding from a pump jack scaffold, approximately 21 feet above grade, while working on a platform which was rated for 250 pounds, but the combined body weight of the two mean exceeded this capacity.

Issued

2015-04-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.452(j)(2): Poles were not secured to the structure by rigid triangular bracing or equivalent at the bottom, top, and other points as necessary.  a) Preserve at Montgomery, Lot 69, Worksite - on or about April 7, 2015, employees are installing siding from a pump jack scaffold, approximately 21 feet above grade, where only the pole ends tops were secured by rigid triangular bracing.

Issued

2015-04-14 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-04-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2800.00

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.  a) Preserve at Montgomery, Lot 69, Worksite - on or about April 7, 2015, employees are installing siding from a pump jack scaffold, approximately 21 feet above grade, and but did not access the scaffold while at working height by a suitable means of access and egress.

Issued

2015-04-14 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-04-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1051(a): Stairway(s) or ladder(s) were not provided at all personnel points of access where there was a break in elevation of 19 inches (48 cm) or more, or no ramp, runway, sloped embankment, or personnel hoist was provided:  a) Preserve at Montgomery, Lot 69, Worksite - on or about April 7, 2015, employees are installing siding on a residential home site while using a pump jack scaffold without a dedicated and proper means of access or egress, which requires the workers to transit the roof and lower themselves to the scaffold working platform, approximately 36 inches to the scaffold plank.

Issued

2015-04-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2800.00

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) Preserve at Montgomery, Lot 69, Worksite - on or about April 7, 2015, employees are installing siding from a pump jack scaffold, approximately 21 feet above grade, and but did not access the scaffold while at working height by a suitable means of access and egress.

Issued

2015-04-14 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-04-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $2800.00

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) Preserve at Montgomery, Lot 69, Worksite - on or about April 7, 2015, employees are installing siding from a pump jack scaffold, approximately 21 feet above grade, but are conducting additional work or scaffold access via the roof of the new residential project without wearing any means of fall protection.

Issued

2015-04-14 00:00:00

Abate by

2015-04-24 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $2000.00

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) Preserve at Montgomery, Lot 69, Worksite - on or about April 7, 2015, employees are installing siding on a residential home site while using aluminum extension ladder, which did not extend at least three feet above the upper landing surface, nor was provided a grasping device to assist with the transition to the working surface.