OSHA Inspection: HOMETOWN EXTERIORS INC.

Issued

2020-12-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-01-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

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) Hometown Exteriors Inc. at 2815 Rigden Parkway, Fort Collins, CO: On and around September 28, 2020, the exposing employer did not ensure that an employee was protected from injury, in that an employee, conducting siding work on the first story roof of a residential home, was wearing a personal fall arrest system but had not installed an anchor point or tied-off his lifeline to an anchor point. This condition exposed the employee to a fall height up to approximately 9.7 feet.

Issued

2020-12-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-01-21 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 potentially exposed to fall hazards to enable each employee to recognize the hazards of falling and the procedures to be followed in order to minimize these hazards:  (a) Hometown Exteriors Inc. at 2815 Rigden Parkway, Fort Collins, CO: On and around September 28, 2020, the exposing employer  did not ensure that employees were protected from injury, in that employees were not effectively trained to recognize the hazards of falling and the procedures to be followed in order to minimize these hazards. An employees was conducting siding work on the first story of a residential home but had not installed an anchor point or tied-off his life line to the anchor point. This condition exposed the employee to a fall hazard of approximately 9.7 feet.

Issued

2020-12-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-01-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2892.00 · Current $2892.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1153(c)(1):For each employee engaged in a task identified on Table 1, the employer did not fully and properly implement the engineering controls, work practices, and respiratory protection specified for the task on Table 1, unless the employer assesses and limits the exposure of the employee to respirable crystalline silica in accordance with paragraph (d) of this section.  a) Hometown Exteriors Inc. at 2815 Rigden Parkway, Fort Collins, CO: On and around September 28, 2020, the exposing employer did not fully and properly implement engineering controls specified for task on Table 1 Entry iii in that an employee used a hand saw that did not have a dust collection system, while cutting Exterior Fiber-Cement siding that contained silica. This condition potentially exposed an employee to airborne crystalline silica hazards.

Issued

2020-12-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-01-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1153(d)(2)(i):The employer did not assess the exposure of each employee who was or may reasonably be expected to be exposed to respirable crystalline silica at or above the action level in accordance with either the performance option in paragraph (d)(2)(ii) or the scheduled monitoring option in paragraph (d)(2)(iii) of this section:  a) Hometown Exteriors Inc. at 2815 Rigden Parkway, Fort Collins, CO: On and around September 28, 2020, the exposing employer did not assess the 8-hour TWA exposure of each employees on the basis of any combination of air monitoring data or objective data sufficient to accurately characterize employee exposures to respirable crystalline silica, when an employee used a hand saw without a dust collection system to cut Exterior Fiber-Cement  that contained silica. This condition potentially exposed an employee to airborne crystalline silica hazards.

Issued

2020-12-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-01-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2892.00 · Current $1908.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1153(g)(1): The employer did not establish and implement a written exposure control plan:   a) Hometown Exteriors Inc. at 2815 Rigden Parkway, Fort Collins, CO: On and around September 28, 2020, the exposing employer did not establish and implement a written exposure control plan.  An employee cut Exterior Fiber-Cement siding, containing quartz silica, with a hand saw but a written exposure control plan was not developed. This condition potentially exposed an employee to airborne crystalline silica hazards.

Issued

2020-12-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-01-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1153(g)(4):The employer did not designate a competent person to make frequent and regular inspections of job sites, materials, and equipment to implement the written exposure control plan:  a) Hometown Exteriors Inc. at 2815 Rigden Parkway, Fort Collins, CO: On and around September 28, 2020, the exposing employer did not designate a competent person to make frequent and regular inspections of the job sites, materials, and equipment to ensure that the company had implemented and complied with a written exposure control plan. An employee cut Exterior Fiber-Cement, containing silica, with a hand saw but did not develop a written exposure control plan. This condition potentially exposed an employee to airborne crystalline silica hazards.

Issued

2020-12-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-01-21 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:  a) Hometown Exteriors Inc. at 2815 Rigden Parkway, Fort Collins, CO: On and around September 28, 2020, the exposing employer did not provide employees with effective information and training on hazardous chemicals in their work area. Employees did not know the hazards of the chemicals in their work areas. This condition exposed employees to chemical hazards, including but not limited to MasterSeal NP 1 White also NP1 WHT, containing toluene-2,4-diisocyanate, and Exterior Fiber-Cement, containing quartz silica.   Note: The requirements applicable to the construction standard under this section are identical to other set forth in 29 CFR 1926.59.  Abatement Note: Information and training may be designed to cover categories of hazards (e.g., flammability, carcinogenicity) or specific chemicals. Chemical-specific information must always be available through labels and safety data sheets.

Issued

2020-12-17 00:00:00

Abate by

2021-01-21 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.95(d)(1):Except as provided by paragraphs (d)(2) through (d)(6) of this section, the protective equipment, including personal protective equipment (PPE), used to comply with this part, was not provided by the employer at no cost to employee(s):  (a) Hometown Exteriors Inc. at 2815 Rigden Parkway, Fort Collins, CO: On and around September 28, 2020, the employer did not provide personal protective equipment at no cost to employees.