OSHA Inspection: AMERICAN EXTERIOR CLEANING CORP.

Issued

2017-04-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-04-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2716.00 · Current $625.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(c): The employer did not develop and implement a written respiratory protection program with required worksite-specific procedures and elements for required respirator use:      a) Job site, 103 Harrison Drive, Pittsburgh, PA: On or about March 20, 2017, prior to performing chimney repair activities, the employer did not ensure that a written respirator program was created and implemented at the site where the employer mandated respirator use during particular job activities.

Issued

2017-04-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-04-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(e)(1): The employer did not provide a medical evaluation to determine the employee's ability to use a respirator, before the employee is fit tested or required to use the respirator in the workplace:   a) Job site, 103 Harrison Drive, Pittsburgh, PA: On or about March 20, 2017, prior to performing chimney repair activities, the employer did not ensure that employees were provided with medical evaluations prior to using respirators, where the employer had made respirator use mandatory during particular job activities.

Issued

2017-04-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-04-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(f)(1): The employer did not ensure that employees using a tight-fitting facepiece respirator passed an appropriate qualitative fit test (QLFT) or quantitative fit test (QNFT):   a) Job site, 103 Harrison Drive, Pittsburgh, PA: On or about March 20, 2017, prior to performing chimney repair activities, the employer did not ensure that employees were provided with medical evaluations where the employer mandated respirators be used during particular job activities.

Issued

2017-04-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-04-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.134(k)(3): The employer did not provide training prior to requiring the employee to use a respirator in the workplace:   a) Job site, 103 Harrison Drive, Pittsburgh, PA: On or about March 20, 2017, prior to performing chimney repair activities, the employer did not ensure that employees were provided with respirator training where the employer had mandated respirator use during particular job activities.

Issued

2017-04-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-04-28 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1630.00 · Current $625.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): The employer did not develop, implement, and maintain at each workplace, a written hazard communication program which at least described how the criteria specified in paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) of this section for labels and other forms of warning, safety data sheets, and employee information and training would be met:      a) Job site, 103 Harrison Drive, Pittsburgh, PA: On or about March 21, 2017, prior to performing chimney repair activities, the employer did not ensure that a written hazard communication program was developed and implemented at the worksite where employees worked with chemicals including, but not limited to, mortar mix.

Issued

2017-04-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-04-28 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, and did not ensure that they were readily accessible during each work shift to employees when they were in their work area(s):   a) Job site, 103 Harrison Drive, Pittsburgh, PA: On or about March 21, 2017, prior to performing chimney repair activities, the employer did not ensure that material safety data sheets/safety data sheets for chemicals including, but not limited to, Quikrete mortar mix were maintained and available for review.

Issued

2017-04-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-04-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1): The employer did not provide employees with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment, and whenever a new chemical hazard the employees had not previously been trained about was introduced into their work area:   a) Job site, 103 Harrison Drive, Pittsburgh, PA: On or about March 21, 2017, prior to performing chimney repair activities, the employer did not ensure that effective training was provided on chemicals including, but not limited to, mortar mix.

Issued

2017-04-11 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2716.00 · Current $625.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames, and uprights did not bear on base plates and mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:      a) Job site, 103 Harrison Drive, Pittsburgh, PA: On or about March 21, 2017, during construction activities, the employer did not ensure that the scaffold base plates sat on mud sills.

Issued

2017-04-11 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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 another scaffold, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface were not used:    a) Job site, 103 Harrison Drive, Pittsburgh, PA: On or about March 21, 2017, during construction activities, the employer did not ensure that a safe means of accessing the scaffold was in use in that employees were climbing up/down the end frames of a walkthrough scaffold.

Issued

2017-04-11 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(4)(i): Guardrail systems were not installed along all open sides and ends of platforms:   a) Job site, 103 Harrison Drive, Pittsburgh, PA: On or about March 21, 2017, during construction activities, the employer did not ensure that guardrails systems were installed along all open sides of the scaffolding, exposing employees to fall hazards of up to approximately 22 feet.

Issued

2017-04-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-04-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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:   a) Job site, 103 Harrison Drive, Pittsburgh, PA: On or about March 21, 2017, prior to working on scaffolding, the employer did not ensure that employees received appropriate scaffold safety training. Deficiencies noted during the inspection included, but were not limited to, mudsills were not used under base plates, fall hazards of approximately 22 feet existed at the top of the scaffolding and employees were observed climbing up/down the ends of walk through frame scaffolding rather than having an appropriate safe means of access provided.

Issued

2017-04-11 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2716.00 · Current $625.00 Reduced

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 was not protected by guardrail systems, safety net system, or personal fall arrest system:      a) Job site, 103 Harrison Drive, Pittsburgh, PA: On or about March 21, 2017, during chimney repair activities, the employer did not ensure that an employee on the roof of the home used appropriate fall protection systems/devices where exposed to fall hazards of up to approximately 22 feet.

Issued

2017-04-11 00:00:00

Abate by

2017-04-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.503(a)(1): The employer did not provide a training program for each employee who might be exposed to fall hazards that enabled each employee to recognize the hazards of falling and that trained each employee in the procedures to be followed in order to minimize these hazards:   a) Job site, 103 Harrison Drive, Pittsburgh, PA: On or about March 21, 2017, prior to performing chimney repair activities, the employer did not ensure that an employee was provided with appropriate fall protection training where he was exposed to falls of up to approximately 22 feet.