OSHA Inspection: ROBERTO CARLOS VELIZ BENITEZ

Issued

2020-05-08 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2313.00 · Current $2313.00

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:  On or about January 10, 2020, at Lot 28, 127 Longleaf Drive, Canton, Georgia:  An employee performing siding work was exposed to struck-by hazards from falling tools and materials of the employees working above him from a pump jack scaffold as he worked on the ground beneath the employees without wearing a hard hat.

Issued

2020-05-08 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2313.00 · Current $2313.00

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:  On or about January 10, 2020, at Lot 28, 137 Longleaf Drive, Canton, Georgia:  Two employees performing siding installation work were exposed to struck-by hazards from nails, and cement/wood fiber while operating nail guns without using safety glasses.

Issued

2020-05-08 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-06-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4241.00 · Current $4241.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(7): On scaffolds where platforms are overlapped to create a long platform, the overlap did not occur only over supports:  On or about January 10, 2020, at Lot 28, at 137 Longleaf Drive, Canton, Georgia:  Two employees performing siding installation work were exposed to fall hazards of approximately 16.5-feet when they worked from a pump jack scaffold that had two separate work platforms that were attached by two ratchet straps and were not secured over a support.

Issued

2020-05-08 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-06-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4241.00 · Current $4241.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.451(c)(2): Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames,  or uprights did not bear on base plates, mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:  On or about January 10, 2020, at Lot 28, 137 Longleaf Drive, Canton, Georgia:  Two employees performing siding installation work were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 17-feet when they worked from the work platform of a pump jack scaffold that did not have base plates installed on either of the two scaffold poles.

Issued

2020-05-08 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-06-04 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.  On or about January 10, 2020, at Lot 28, 137 Longleaf Drive, Canton, Georgia:  Two employees performing siding installation work were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 17-feet when they worked from the work platform of a pump jack scaffold that was not secured at the bottom of the house.

Issued

2020-05-08 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-06-04 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4241.00 · Current $4241.00

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:  On or about January 10, 2020, at Lot 28, 137 Longleaf Drive, Canton, Georgia:  Two employees performing siding installation work were exposed to a fall hazard of approximately 17-feet when they worked from the work platform of a pump jack scaffold without using fall protection.