OSHA Inspection: AMERICA FIRST CONTRACTORS, LLC

Issued

2025-07-03 00:00:00

Abate by

2025-08-20 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $7282.00 · Current $7282.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.20(b)(1): The employer did not create or maintain a safety and health program to include, but not limited to, identification and control of hazards, training and education, and work safety rules and procedures to enable employees exposed to fall hazards to recognize and avoid unsafe conditions at the workplace:  a) Jobsite located at 650 Red Bone Road, Chester Springs, PA. - The employer did not initiate or maintain an accident prevention program to address the associated hazards that employees are exposed to during framing activities, such as but not limited to fall hazards.  Condition observed on or about April 3, 2025.

Issued

2025-07-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $7282.00 · Current $7282.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(a)(6):Scaffolds were not designed by a qualified person:  a) Jobsite located at 650 Red Bone Road, Chester Springs, PA. - The employer did not ensure that a job made scaffold was constructed to meet design specifications to support the intended load.  Condition observed on or about April 2, 2025.

Issued

2025-07-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $7282.00 · Current $7282.00

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) Jobsite located at 650 Red Bone Road, Chester Springs, PA. - The employer did not ensure that employees working on a wooden scaffold was fully planked or decked before framing activities began on a residential building.

Issued

2025-07-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $7282.00 · Current $7282.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.451(c)(2):Supported scaffold poles, legs, posts, frames, or uprights did not bear on base plates and mud sills or other adequate firm foundation:  a) Jobsite located at 650 Red Bone Road, Chester Springs, PA. - The Employer did not ensure that the scaffold legs were erected on a firm foundation by utilizing adjustable base plates; thus exposing employees to scaffold collapse hazards.  Condition observed on or about April 2, 2025.

Issued

2025-07-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $7282.00 · Current $7282.00

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) Jobsite located at 650 Red Bone Road, Chester Springs, PA. - The employer did not have a safe means to access the scaffold for his employees. Employees had to access the scaffold by climbing between the building and the scaffold utilizing a self-supporting ladder in the closed position; thus exposing them to fall hazards.  Condition was observed on or about April 3, 2025.

Issued

2025-07-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $7282.00 · Current $7282.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR  1926.1053(b)(4):Ladder(s) were used for purposes other than the purpose for which they were designed:   a) Jobsite located at 650 Red Bone Road, Chester Springs, PA. - The employer did not ensure that employees utilized a self-supporting ladder according to manufactures specifications, in that the employees were utilizing the self supporting ladder in a closed position exposing employees to falls of approximately 6 feet.   Condition observed on or about April 3, 2025.

Issued

2025-07-03 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $36410.00 · Current $36410.00

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) Jobsite located at 650 Red Bone Road, Chester Springs, PA. -  the employer did not ensure employees engaged in residential construction activities 6 feet or more above lower levels were protected guardrail systems, safety net system, or personal fall arrest system. Employees were performing framing activities without the use of fall protection, thereby exposing employees to falls of approximately 20 feet.  Condition was observed on or about April 3, 2025.  America First Contractors, LLC was previously cited for a violation of this occupational safety and health standard 1926.501(b)(13), which was contained in OSHA inspection number 1720813, citation 2, item number 1 and was affirmed as a final order on April 15, 2024,  with respect to a workplace located at 5 Charlotte Court, Marlton NJ 08053.  America First Contractors, LLC was previously cited for a violation of this occupational safety and health standard 1926.501(b)(13), which was contained in OSHA inspection number 1702334, citation 1, item number 1, and was affirmed a final order on February 7, 2024, with respect to a workplace located at 1 Charlotte Court, Marlton NJ 08053.  America First Contractors, LLC was previously cited for a violation of this occupational safety and health standard 1926.501(b)(13), which was contained in OSHA inspection number 1643491, Citation 1, Item Number 1, and was affirmed as a final order on March 24, 2023, with respect to a workplace located at Nelson's Way, Westampton, NJ 08060.  America First Contractors, LLC was previously cited for a violation of this occupational safety and health standard 1926.501(b)(13), which was contained in OSHA inspection number 1572369, citation 1, item number 1, and was affirmed as a final order on May 16, 2022, with respect to a workplace located at Maple Avenue Harleysville, PA 19438.  America First Contractors, LLC was previously cited for a violation of this occupational safety and health standard 1926.501(b)(13), which was contained in OSHA inspection number 1552267, citation 1, item number 4, and was affirmed as a final order on November 30, 2021, with respect to a workplace located at Stravinsky Avenue Middletown, DE 19934.