OSHA Inspection: SIMPSON PLASTERING, LLC

Issued

2019-06-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $6763.00 · Current $6763.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.100(a): Employees working in areas where there was a possible danger of head injury from impact, or falling or flying objects, or from electrical shock and burns, were not protected by protective helmets:  a)  On or about 05/02/19 - #10 Amber Drive, Hoover, AL, employees were not provided head protection while working underneath brick installation activities.

Issued

2019-06-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $6763.00 · Current $6763.00

General-duty citation text

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:  a)  On or about 05/02/19 - #10 Amber Drive, Hoover, AL, an employee was operating a Dewalt angle grinder without eye protection.

Issued

2019-06-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $6763.00 · Current $6763.00

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):  a) On or about 05/02/19 - #10 Amber Drive, Hoover, AL, employees installing brick at approximately 14 feet above the ground level were working from scaffolding that was not fully planked at the working platform.

Issued

2019-06-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $6763.00 · Current $6763.00

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:  a) On or about 05/02/19 - #10 Amber Drive, Hoover, AL, employees installing brick at approximately 14 feet above the ground level were using the frame of a supported scaffold to access the working platform.

Issued

2019-06-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9282.00 · Current $9282.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1): Each employee on a scaffold more than 10 feet (3.1m) above a lower level was not protected from falling to that lower level by fall protection established in accordance with paragraphs (g)(1)(i) through (vii) of this section:  a) On or about 05/02/19 - #10 Amber Drive, Hoover, AL, employees installing brick at approximately 14 feet above the ground level were working from scaffolding that did not have a guardrail system.

Issued

2019-06-14 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4508.00 · Current $4508.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(h)(1): Each employee on a scaffold was not provided with additional protection from falling hand tools, debris, and other small objects through the installation of toeboards, screens, guardrail systems, or through the erection of debris nets, catch platforms, or canopy structures that contain or deflect the falling objects.  For falling objects too large, heavy or massive to be contained or deflected, the employer did not place and secure such potential falling objects away from the edge of the surface from which they could fall:  a) On or about 05/02/19 - #10 Amber Drive, Hoover, AL, employees installing brick at approximately 14 feet above the ground level were working from scaffolding that did not have toeboards installed.

Issued

2019-06-14 00:00:00

Abate by

2019-06-26 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.59:  The employer did not provide Safety Data Sheets in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.1200, as incorporated by reference:  a) On or about 05/02/19 - #10 Amber Drive, Hoover, AL, employees were exposed to chemicals such as, but not limited to, brick MVIS Thin Brick Mortar and subcontracted employees did not have access to the Safety Data Sheets.