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BTS Construction, Inc.: OSHA inspections and violations

Chicago, Illinois · New Single-Family Housing Construction (except For-Sale Builders) · NAICS 236115

3inspections
8citation items
$23,813current penalties
Mar 22, 2017last inspection

OSHA has inspected BTS Construction, Inc. 3 times in Illinois since 2012.

The latest one began on Mar 22, 2017 as a planned inspection, in Chicago.

Those inspections ended with 8 citation items: 6 serious and 2 repeat.

Penalties were first proposed at $23,813 and still stand at $23,813.

Scaffolds, general requirements comes up most often in these citations: 6 items under 1926.451.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for construction employers since 2015 is $3,080, and BTS Construction, Inc. averages $19,013 (1 cited inspection).

BTS Construction, Inc.: OSHA citation items per year, 2012 to 2017
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 342195740 OPENED MAR 22, 2017Closed

Planned · Partial · Safety · 3 employees at the site · Closed Jul 22, 2020

3855 S. Hermitage Avenue, Chicago, IL 60653 · New Single-Family Housing Construction (except For-Sale Builders) · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a
29 CFR 1926.451(b)(5)(ii) · Scaffolds, general requirements
 Serious$3,803$3,803May 19, 2017Final
Citation 1, item 1b
29 CFR 1926.452(k)(1) · Rules for each type of scaffold
 Serious$0$0May 19, 2017Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1) · Scaffolds, general requirements
 Repeat$7,605$7,605May 19, 2017Final
Citation 2, item 2
29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(i) · Scaffolds, general requirements
 Repeat$7,605$7,605May 19, 2017Final

Inspection 335145181 OPENED JUL 9, 2012Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · 3 employees at the site · Closed Feb 7, 2013

Douglas Monument Park S. Lake Park Ave And E. 35th Street, Chicago, IL 60653 · New Single-Family Housing Construction (except For-Sale Builders) · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a
29 CFR 1926.501(b)(13) · Fall protection in construction
 Serious$2,000$2,000Aug 3, 2012Final
Citation 1, item 1b
29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(iii) · Scaffolds, general requirements
 Serious$0$0Aug 3, 2012Final

Inspection 334825189 OPENED JUN 14, 2012Closed

Planned · Partial · Safety · 6 employees at the site · Closed Feb 11, 2013

13048-52 S. King Drive, Chicago, IL 60628 · Masonry Contractors · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(i) · Scaffolds, general requirements
 Serious$1,600$1,600Aug 3, 2012Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1) · Scaffolds, general requirements
 Serious$1,200$1,200Aug 3, 2012Final

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1926.451 · Scaffolds, general requirements

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(5)(ii)

(ii) Each platform greater than 10 feet in length shall not extend over its support more than 18 inches (46 cm), unless it is designed and installed so that the cantilevered portion of the platform is able to support employees without tipping, or has guardrails which block employee access to the cantilevered end.

29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1)

(1) When scaffold platforms are 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 another scaffold, structure, personnel hoist, or similar surface shall be used. Crossbraces shall not be used as a means of access.

29 CFR 1926.451(g)(1)(i)

(i) Each employee on a boatswains' chair, catenary scaffold, float scaffold, needle beam scaffold, or ladder jack scaffold shall be protected by a personal fall arrest system;

29 CFR 1926.452 · Rules for each type of scaffold

29 CFR 1926.501 · Fall protection in construction

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