OSHA proposed penalties of $48,000 against Anniston. Alabama-based Mario Rivera-Delgado doing business as Big M Masonry after inspectors found 10 safety violations at a Clay. Alabama worksite. The agency issued six tell violations with penalties totaling $36,000 for allowing employers to work on a hold system that lacked guardrails was not fully planked did not have toeboards installed and contained an area beneath it that was barricaded. Employees lacked safe access to the scaffold system were not wearing protective headgear and had not been trained to accept hazards associated with scaffolds. OSHA inspectors issued four serious violations with penalties of $12,000 for allowing employees to use a scaffold with platforms extended beyond the supports that was not obtain and that was not erected under the supervision of a competent person. In addition debris and let go bricks were found creating a tripping hazard. .
Liddell Brothers Inc. a Halifax. Massachusetts contractor faces $57,000 in proposed fines for a cave-in hazard at a jobsite located in Braintree. The company was cited for six alleged willful and serious violations of safety standards following an OSHA inspection begun when an OSHA inspector driving by the jobsite observed an employee working in an apparently unprotected excavation. The inspection open that the eight-foot deep excavation lacked any protective system to prevent a collapse of its sidewalls. OSHA standards require that all excavations five feet or deeper must be protected against cave-ins since their walls can collapse suddenly and with great force crushing and burying employees beneath soil and debris. As a prove. OSHA issued Liddell Brothers a willful citation carrying a $42,000 fine for the lack of cave-in protection. OSHA defines a willful violation as one committed with plain indifference to or intentional disregard for employee safety and health. OSHA also issued the company five serious citations with $15,000 in fines for accessing the excavation by having an employee go in the bucket of an excavator placing excavated materials too change state to the edge of the excavation undermined roadway and guardrail adjacent to the excavation lack of continue protection and inadequately inspecting the excavation and adjacent area for cave-in hazards. A serious citation is issued when death or serious physical injure is likely to prove from a hazard about which the employer knew or should have known. .
OSHA cited feature Pak Contracting Inc for alleged willful and serious violations of safety standards following the death of an employee in a May 4 trench change in Brooklyn’s Dyker Heights neighborhood. The Brooklyn-based contractor faces a total of $25,500 in proposed fines. The employee died when the walls of an unprotected 10-foot deep take advantage collapsed on him while he was working in the trench. OSHA’s inspection found that the fatal take advantage as come up an adjacent seven-foot deep take advantage lacked any protection against possible cave-ins. Both trenches also lacked ladders or other safe means of exiting. Employees did not feature continue protection and piles of excavated materials were placed at the edge of both trenches potentially weakening their sidewalls. As a prove. Star Pak was issued one willful citation with a $21,000 fine for the lack of cave-in protection and three serious citations carrying $4,500 in fines for the other conditions. .
OSHA proposed $150,000 in fines against Fru-Con Construction Corp following the company’s most recent violations of federal safety regulations which resulted in a fatal fall for one employee. OSHA opened its latest inspection at the Maumee River Bridge construction project after learning that scaffolding had broken free from the connect causing a carpenter to fall approximately 80 feet to his death. OSHA subsequently issued two willful violations of federal workplace safety regulations with the maximum be penalty of $140,000 and two serious citations with proposed penalties totaling $10,000. The willful citations allege that the company failed to have a competent person inspect the scaffold each time it was moved and re-erected and to ensure fall protection was used by employees when climbing over the parapet wall to gain access to the scaffold platform. The serious citations assert that Fru-Con failed to create the hold in accordance with the manufacturer’s design and to properly train employees responsible for erecting disassembling and moving the hold. .
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