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Sandow Development LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

Wheeling, West Virginia · Commercial and Institutional Building Construction · NAICS 236220

1inspections
6citation items
$6,020current penalties
Jan 15, 2016last inspection

OSHA inspectors have visited Sandow Development LLC in West Virginia one time.

It opened on Jan 15, 2016 after a fatality or catastrophe, in Wheeling.

In all, OSHA issued 6 citation items: 5 serious and 1 other-than-serious.

The proposed penalties came to $8,600; today they stand at $6,020, 30% less.

The rule cited most here is 1910.1200 (hazard communication), 3 times.

Among construction employers, the typical cited inspection since 2015 ends with a $3,080 penalty. Sandow Development LLC averages $6,020 across 1 cited inspection.

1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.

Sandow Development LLC: OSHA citation items per year, 2016 to 2016
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 341184208 OPENED JAN 15, 2016Closed

Fatality or catastrophe · Complete · Safety · 21 employees at the site · Closed Sep 7, 2016

2 16th Street, Wheeling, WV 26003 · Commercial and Institutional Building Construction · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Jan 15, 2016 (fatal): Employee is killed when he falls through stairway opening

At 1:00 p.m. on January 15, 2016, an employee was the framer's lead and was inspecting the framing work on the third floor. The employee stepped inside the metal framing. While talking to a co-worker he stepped through a plastic covering 20 feet by 8 feet over a floor hole. The employee fell approximately 28 feet to the concrete on the basement floor. The employee sustained a skull fracture from a sprinkler pipe and the concrete floor and was killed.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1a
29 CFR 1910.1200(e)(1) · Hazard communication
 Serious$1,200$840Jul 13, 2016Final
Citation 1, item 1b
29 CFR 1910.1200(g)(1) · Hazard communication
 Serious$0$0Jul 13, 2016Final
Citation 1, item 1c
29 CFR 1910.1200(h)(1) · Hazard communication
 Serious$0$0Jul 13, 2016Final
Citation 1, item 2a
29 CFR 1926.501(b)(4)(i) · Fall protection in construction
 Serious$7,000$4,900Jul 13, 2016Final
Citation 1, item 2b
29 CFR 1926.503(a)(1) · Fall protection training in construction
 Serious$0$0Jul 13, 2016Final
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1904.32(b)(3) · Yearly injury summary
 Other-than-serious$400$280Jul 13, 2016Final

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1904.32 · Yearly injury summary

29 CFR 1904.32(b)(3)

(3) How do I certify the annual summary? A company executive must certify that he or she has examined the OSHA 300 Log and that he or she reasonably believes, based on his or her knowledge of the process by which the information was recorded, that the annual summary is correct and complete.

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)(1)

(g) Safety data sheets. (1) Chemical manufacturers and importers shall obtain or develop a safety data sheet for each hazardous chemical they produce or import. Employers shall have a safety data sheet in the workplace for each hazardous chemical which they use.

29 CFR 1926.501 · Fall protection in construction

29 CFR 1926.503 · Fall protection training in construction

Other commercial and institutional building construction employers in West Virginia

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