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Any Tree Removal: OSHA inspections and violations

Trumbull, Connecticut · Landscaping Services · NAICS 561730

1inspections
10citation items
$16,387current penalties
Apr 14, 2018last inspection

OSHA has inspected Any Tree Removal once in Connecticut.

The inspection began on Apr 14, 2018 after a fatality or catastrophe, in Trumbull.

That inspection ended with 10 citation items: 6 serious and 4 other-than-serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $16,387 and still stand at $16,387.

Personal protective equipment, general requirements comes up most often in these citations: 3 items under 1910.132.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for staffing, cleaning and waste services employers since 2015 is $2,201, and Any Tree Removal averages $16,387 (1 cited inspection).

1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.

Any Tree Removal: OSHA citation items per year, 2018 to 2018
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 343088431 OPENED APR 14, 2018Closed

Fatality or catastrophe · Partial · Safety · 3 employees at the site · Closed Apr 1, 2024

225 Pinewood Trail, Trumbull, CT 06611 · Landscaping Services · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Apr 14, 2018 (fatal): Employee falls 40 feet while strapped to a tree and is kill

At 9:00 a.m. on April 14, 2018, Employee #1 while strapped to the upper area of a tree trunk, had secured a top section of the tree. The tree was 57 inches long and 10 inches in diameter, using a rope and he cut a piece from the top of the tree. As the employee tried to manually lower the cut tree branch with the rope, the branch swung down and the rotted base of the tree trunk gave way. The employee was attached to the tree trunk when it fell approximately 40 feet to the ground. Employee #1 sustained blunt force trauma to his chest and was killed.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
OSH Act Section 5(a)(1) · General Duty Clause
 Serious$3,880$3,880Oct 5, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.22(b) · Walking-working surfaces
 Serious$3,880$3,880Oct 5, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1910.132(a) · Personal protective equipment, general requirements
 Serious$2,772$2,772Oct 5, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 4a
29 CFR 1910.132(d)(1) · Personal protective equipment, general requirements
 Serious$2,772$2,772Oct 5, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 4b
29 CFR 1910.132(f)(1) · Personal protective equipment, general requirements
 Serious$0$0Oct 5, 2018Final
Citation 1, item 5
29 CFR 1910.133(a)(1) · Eye and face protection
 Serious$2,772$2,772Oct 5, 2018Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1) · Hazard communication
 Other-than-serious$0$0Oct 5, 2018Final
Citation 2, item 2
29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8) · Hazard communication
 Other-than-serious$0$0Oct 5, 2018Final
Citation 2, item 3
29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1) · Hazard communication
 Other-than-serious$0$0Oct 5, 2018Final
Citation 3, item 1
29 CFR 1903.19(c)(1) · Proving cited hazards were fixed
 Other-than-serious$311$311Nov 26, 2018Final

The rules behind these citations

Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.

29 CFR 1903.19 · Proving cited hazards were fixed

29 CFR 1903.19(c)(1)

(c) Abatement certification. (1) Within 10 calendar days after the abatement date, the employer must certify to OSHA (the Agency) that each cited violation has been abated, except as provided in paragraph (c)(2) of this section.

29 CFR 1910.1200 · Hazard communication

29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1)

(e) Written hazard communication program. (1) Employers shall develop, implement, and maintain at each workplace, a written hazard communication program which at least describes how the criteria specified in paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) of this section for labels and other forms of warning, safety data sheets, and employee information and training will be met, and which also includes the following:

29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(8)

(8) The employer shall maintain in the workplace copies of the required safety data sheets for each hazardous chemical, and shall ensure that they are readily accessible during each work shift to employees when they are in their work area(s). (Electronic access and other alternatives to maintaining paper copies of the safety data sheets are permitted as long as no barriers to immediate employee access in each workplace are created by such options.)

29 CFR 1910.132 · Personal protective equipment, general requirements

29 CFR 1910.133 · Eye and face protection

29 CFR 1910.22 · Walking-working surfaces

OSH Act Section 5 · General Duty Clause

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