OSHA Inspection: TREND 21 MANAGEMENT, INC.

Issued

2015-06-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1200.00 Reduced

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:    On or about 5/5/2015, Westchester Ave.    a) The employer did not provide safety and health training as required by the standard.

Issued

2015-06-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $960.00 Reduced

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29 CFR 1926.25(a): During the course of construction, alteration, or repairs,  debris was not kept cleared from work areas, passageways, and stairs, in and around buildings or other structures:      On or about 5/5/2015, Westchester Ave.    a) There were empty buckets, broken pieces of wood and cinderblock obstructing the passageway.

Issued

2015-06-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1600.00 · Current $960.00 Reduced

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29 CFR 1926.102(a)(1): Eye and face protective equipment were not used when machines or operations presented potential eye or face injury from physical, chemical, or radiation agents:    On or about 5/5/2015, Westchester Ave.    a) The employees were applying stucco to the side of the building and were not wearing eye protection.

Issued

2015-06-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1600.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

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 as specified in paragraphs 1926.451(b)(1)(i)-(ii):    On or about 5/5/2015, Westchester Ave.    a) The work platform had three 2x10 planks, exposing the employees to a 12' fall hazard.

Issued

2015-06-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1200.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(3): Supported scaffold poles, legs, post, frames, and/or uprights were not plumb and braced to prevent swaying and displacement:    On or about 5/5/2015, Westchester Ave.    a) The tubular welded frame scaffold was missing cross bracing and baseplates and exposed the employees to a fall hazard.

Issued

2015-06-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2000.00 · Current $1200.00 Reduced

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, sturcure, personnel hoist, or similar surface was not used:    On or about 5/5/2015, Westchester Ave.    a) The employees climbed on the frame of the tubular welded scaffold.

Issued

2015-06-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2800.00 · Current $1680.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet above a lower level were not protected from falling to that lower level:    On or about 5/5/2015, Westchester Ave.    a) The employees worked from a tubular welded frame scaffold and were not protected from falling 12' to the ground below.

Issued

2015-06-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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29 CFR 1926.50(g): Where employees were exposed to injurious corrosive materials, suitable facilities for quick drenching or flushing of the eyes and body were not provided within the work area for immediate emergency use:  On or about 5/5/2015, Westchester Ave.  a) The employees used poly blend and portland cement and were not provided with an eye wash.

Issued

2015-06-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): The employer did not develop, implement, and/or maintain at the workplace a written hazard communication program which describes how the criteria specified in 29 CFR 1910.1200(f), (g), and (h) will be met: (Construction Reference: 1926.59):  On or about 5/5/2015, Westchester Ave.  a) The employer did not follow the requirements for the hazard communication program.

Issued

2015-06-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8):   The employer did not maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical:  On or about 5/5/15, Westchester Ave.  a) The employees used a polyblend, sand  and portland cement for the stucco. They were not provided with the material safety data sheets.

Issued

2015-06-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1): Employees were not provided effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment and whenever a new hazard that the employees had not been previously trained about was introduced into their work area:  On or about 5/5/15, Westchester Ave.  a) The employees were not provided effective information and tarining as required by the standard.