Davis Plastering Inc: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Mar 14, 2019: Employee fractures skull in fall from scaffold

At 9:30 a.m. on March 14, 2019, Employee #1, employed by a plastering contractor, was doing plastering repair work at a one-story residential structure. He was working from a four-foot scaffold and looking up at the ceiling when he inadvertently walked off the scaffold, which lacked guardrails. The employee was transported to the hospital and admitted for treatment of a fractured skull, fractures to the face, and a concussion.

Incident on Aug 29, 1998: Employee injured in fall from ladder

Employee #1 was plastering the final section of a two-story apartment building. He had been told by the supervisor to fix the patio light receptacle, which was at a height of 18 ft on the west wall of the building. The supervisor specifical ly instructed Employee #1 to use two ladders to access the light fixture: a 28 f t extension ladder to reach the projecting patio, and a portable 6 ft A-frame wo oden ladder to pitch on the patio to access the light fixture. Employee #1 fell from a height of 12 ft, either from the extension ladder or from the patio, and suffered a fractured skull and cranial bleeding. He was transported to St. Mary' s Medical Center in Long Beach, CA. No form of fall protection or fall arrest sy stem was being used.