Inspection Type |
Complaint
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Scope |
Partial
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Safety/Health |
Safety
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Close Conference |
2012-06-18
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Emphasis |
L: FALL
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Case Closed |
2014-04-15
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Related Activity
Type |
Complaint |
Activity Nr |
395351 |
Safety |
Yes |
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Violation Items
Citation ID |
01001A |
Citaton Type |
Serious |
Standard Cited |
19101200 E01 |
Issuance Date |
2012-07-31 |
Abatement Due Date |
2012-08-07 |
Current Penalty |
422.0 |
Initial Penalty |
1200.0 |
Final Order |
2012-08-14 |
Nr Instances |
1 |
Nr Exposed |
4 |
Related Event Code (REC) |
Complaint |
Gravity |
1 |
FTA Current Penalty |
0.0 |
Citation text line |
29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1): The employer did not develop, implement, and/or maintain at the workplace a written hazard communication program which describes how the criteria specified in 29 CFR 1910.1200(f), (g), and (h) will be met: a) For the construction site at 3501 E. Hillsborough Ave., Tampa, FL 33610, as observed on or about 06/18/2012: Employees at the jobsite used hazardous chemicals such as but not limited to roofing tar. A written hazardous communications program was not present to address safe handling of chemicals used. |
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Citation ID |
01001B |
Citaton Type |
Serious |
Standard Cited |
19101200 G08 |
Issuance Date |
2012-07-31 |
Abatement Due Date |
2012-08-03 |
Current Penalty |
0.0 |
Initial Penalty |
0.0 |
Final Order |
2012-08-14 |
Nr Instances |
1 |
Nr Exposed |
4 |
Related Event Code (REC) |
Complaint |
Gravity |
1 |
FTA Current Penalty |
0.0 |
Citation text line |
29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8): The employer did not ensure that material safety data sheets were readily accessible to the employees in their work area during each work shift: (Construction Reference: 1926.59) a) For the construction site at 3501 E. Hillsborough Ave., Tampa, FL 33610, as observed on or about 06/18/2012: material safety data sheets for chemicals used at the construction jobsite, such as but not limited to roofing tar, were not available to employees. |
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Citation ID |
01001C |
Citaton Type |
Serious |
Standard Cited |
19101200 H |
Issuance Date |
2012-07-31 |
Abatement Due Date |
2012-08-07 |
Current Penalty |
0.0 |
Initial Penalty |
0.0 |
Final Order |
2012-08-14 |
Nr Instances |
1 |
Nr Exposed |
4 |
Related Event Code (REC) |
Complaint |
Gravity |
1 |
FTA Current Penalty |
0.0 |
Citation text line |
29 CFR 1910.1200(h): Employees were not provided effective information and training as specified in 29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1) and -2 on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of their initial assignment and whenever a new hazard was introduced in: a) For the construction site at 3501 E. Hillsborough Ave., Tampa, FL 33610, as observed on or about 06/18/2012: employees were not trained on the hazards of the chemicals they worked with, such as but not limited to roofing tar/flashing cement, or on the location of material safety data sheets for chemicals used at the jobsite. |
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Citation ID |
01002 |
Citaton Type |
Serious |
Standard Cited |
19260307 C04 I |
Issuance Date |
2012-07-31 |
Abatement Due Date |
2012-08-07 |
Current Penalty |
563.0 |
Initial Penalty |
1600.0 |
Final Order |
2012-08-14 |
Nr Instances |
1 |
Nr Exposed |
4 |
Related Event Code (REC) |
Complaint |
Gravity |
5 |
FTA Current Penalty |
0.0 |
Citation text line |
29 CFR 1926.307(c)(4)(i): Projecting shaft ends did not present a smooth edge, projected more than one-half the diameter of the shaft, and were not guarded by non-rotating caps or safety sleeves: a) For the construction site at 3501 E. Hillsborough Ave., Tampa, FL 33610, as observed on or about 06/18/2012: employees were exposed to an unguarded rotating shaft on the motor for a 5500W generator. The rotating shaft, used as a pull starter, had sharp edges and grooves on the metal that could lacerate employees hands. Clothes could also get caught on the shaft. The length of the shaft was approximately equal to the diameter. |
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Citation ID |
01003 |
Citaton Type |
Serious |
Standard Cited |
19260501 B11 |
Issuance Date |
2012-07-31 |
Abatement Due Date |
2012-08-07 |
Current Penalty |
984.0 |
Initial Penalty |
2800.0 |
Final Order |
2012-08-14 |
Nr Instances |
1 |
Nr Exposed |
4 |
Related Event Code (REC) |
Complaint |
Gravity |
10 |
FTA Current Penalty |
0.0 |
Citation text line |
29 CFR 1926.501(b)(11): Each employee on a steep roof with unprotected sides and edges 6 feet or more above lower levels was not protected from falling by guardrail systems with toeboards, safety net systems, or personal fall arrest systems: a) For the construction site at 3501 E. Hillsborough Ave., Tampa, FL 33610, as observed on or about 06/18/2012: employees were exposed to fall hazards of up to 25 ft. while performing roofing work on a 52.3 degrees pitched roof (pitch= 15:12). No fall protection was available or being used. Employees were able to balance and not slide off by bracing their feet against the top of an extension ladder that extended partway up the roof and contoured the pitch of the roof. |
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Citation ID |
01004 |
Citaton Type |
Serious |
Standard Cited |
19260503 A01 |
Issuance Date |
2012-07-31 |
Abatement Due Date |
2012-08-03 |
Current Penalty |
984.0 |
Initial Penalty |
2800.0 |
Final Order |
2012-08-14 |
Nr Instances |
1 |
Nr Exposed |
4 |
Related Event Code (REC) |
Complaint |
Gravity |
10 |
FTA Current Penalty |
0.0 |
Citation text line |
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) For the construction site at 3501 E. Hillsborough Ave., Tampa, FL 33610, as observed on or about 06/18/2012: employees working at heights of approximately 25 feet had not received any fall protection training and did not know how to recognize fall hazards associated with fall distances and roof pitches. |
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Citation ID |
01005 |
Citaton Type |
Serious |
Standard Cited |
19261053 B05 I |
Issuance Date |
2012-07-31 |
Abatement Due Date |
2012-08-03 |
Current Penalty |
844.0 |
Initial Penalty |
2400.0 |
Final Order |
2012-08-14 |
Nr Instances |
1 |
Nr Exposed |
4 |
Related Event Code (REC) |
Complaint |
Gravity |
5 |
FTA Current Penalty |
0.0 |
Citation text line |
29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(5)(i): Non-self-supporting ladders were not used at an angle such than the horizontal distance from the top support to the foot of the ladder way approximately one-quarter of the working length of the ladder (the distance along the ladder between the foot and the top support): a) For the construction site at 3501 E. Hillsborough Ave., Tampa, FL 33610, as observed on or about 06/18/2012: employees were using and working off of ladders where the horizontal distance from the top support to the foot of the ladder was approximately 61% of the working height of the ladder. |
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Citation ID |
01006 |
Citaton Type |
Serious |
Standard Cited |
19261053 B12 |
Issuance Date |
2012-07-31 |
Abatement Due Date |
2012-08-03 |
Current Penalty |
703.0 |
Initial Penalty |
2000.0 |
Final Order |
2012-08-14 |
Nr Instances |
1 |
Nr Exposed |
4 |
Related Event Code (REC) |
Complaint |
Gravity |
5 |
FTA Current Penalty |
0.0 |
Citation text line |
29 CFR 1926.1053(b)(12): Ladders used where the employee or the ladder could contact exposed energized electrical equipment did not have nonconductive siderails: a) For the construction site at 3501 E. Hillsborough Ave., Tampa, FL 33610, as observed on or about 06/18/2012: employees were working at the edge of a roof off of metal, conductive ladders near the power line that supplied power to the restaurant. Non-conductive side rails for the ladders were not present to protect the employee working on the ladder and the employee holding or adjusting the ladder at ground level. |
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