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Mario Rivera: OSHA inspections and violations

Birmingham, Alabama · Masonry Contractors · NAICS 238140

1inspections
4citation items
$6,349current penalties
Mar 4, 2021last inspection

Mario Rivera has one OSHA inspection on record in Alabama.

OSHA opened it on Mar 4, 2021 on a referral, in Birmingham.

From that inspection OSHA issued 4 citation items: 4 serious.

OSHA proposed $9,070 in penalties. After settlements and reviews the total is $6,349, down 30%.

Most often, OSHA cited 1926.451, scaffolds, general requirements (3 items).

For context, across all construction employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $3,079. Mario Rivera averages $6,349 over 1 cited inspection in that time.

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Mario Rivera: OSHA citation items per year, 2021 to 2021
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 345190177 OPENED MAR 4, 2021Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 8 employees at the site · Closed Sep 15, 2022

19220 Highway 280, Birmingham, AL 35206 · Masonry Contractors · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Feb 24, 2021: Employee falls from scaffold suffering lumbar fracture

At 7:45 a.m. on February 24, 2021, Employee #1 was working for a masonry contractor. Employee #1 was standing on the scaffold cleaning excess concrete from brick wall. The scaffold plank broke causing Employee #1 to fall to the ground. Employee #1 suffered a back fracture leading to hospitalization.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a
29 CFR 1926.451(b)(1)(ii) · Scaffolds, general requirements
 Serious$2,487$1,741Aug 3, 2021Final
Citation 1, item 1b
29 CFR 1926.451(e)(1) · Scaffolds, general requirements
 Serious$0$0Aug 3, 2021Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1926.451(b)(4) · Scaffolds, general requirements
 Serious$4,096$2,867Aug 3, 2021Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1926.454(a) · Scaffold training
 Serious$2,487$1,741Aug 3, 2021Final

Severe injury reports

Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 1 report on file.

Feb 24, 2021, Birmingham: Hospitalization · fractures · nonclassifiable

An employee was on a 32 ft. scaffold. He stepped on a walk board and the walk board slipped, causing him to fall approximately 28 feet to the ground. He was hospitalized with a hairline fracture to vertebrae.

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)(1)(ii)

(ii) Where the employer makes the demonstration provided for in paragraph (b)(1)(i) of this section, the platform shall be planked or decked as fully as possible and the remaining open space between the platform and the uprights shall not exceed 9 1/2 inches (24.1 cm).

29 CFR 1926.451(b)(4)

(4) Each end of a platform, unless cleated or otherwise restrained by hooks or equivalent means, shall extend over the centerline of its support at least 6 inches (15 cm).

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 1926.454 · Scaffold training

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