Selective Demolition LLC OSHA Violations, Washington DC

OSHA has inspected Selective Demolition LLC 3 times in District of Columbia since 2006.

The latest one began on May 29, 2015 after a complaint, in Washington.

Those inspections ended with 14 citation items: 6 serious and 8 other-than-serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $40,140 and now stand at $22,615, 44% lower after settlements or reviews.

Asbestos in construction comes up most often in these citations: 10 items under 1926.1101.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for construction employers since 2015 is $3,080, and Selective Demolition LLC averages $16,390 (1 cited inspection).

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Selective Demolition LLC: OSHA citation items per year, 2006 to 2015 — Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 340664812 OPENED MAY 29, 2015Closed

Complaint · Partial · Health · 27 employees at the site · Closed Jan 4, 2016

4200 Harewood Road, Ne, Washington, DC 20017 · Site Preparation Contractors · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and rule	Type	Proposed	Current	Issued	Status
Citation 1, item 1b 29 CFR 1926.1101(e)(1) · Asbestos in construction	Other-than-serious	$0	$2,700	Nov 25, 2015	Final
Citation 1, item 2a 29 CFR 1926.1101(f)(1)(i) · Asbestos in construction	Other-than-serious	$5,390	$2,800	Nov 25, 2015	Final
Citation 1, item 2b 29 CFR 1926.1101(f)(2)(i) · Asbestos in construction	Other-than-serious	$0	$0	Nov 25, 2015	Final
Citation 1, item 2c 29 CFR 1926.1101(f)(3)(i) · Asbestos in construction	Other-than-serious	$0	$0	Nov 25, 2015	Final
Citation 1, item 3a 29 CFR 1926.1101(g)(1) · Asbestos in construction	Other-than-serious	$5,390	$2,700	Nov 25, 2015	Final
Citation 1, item 5a 29 CFR 1926.1101(h)(3)(i)(a) · Asbestos in construction	Other-than-serious	$5,390	$5,390	Nov 25, 2015	Final
Citation 1, item 5b 29 CFR 1926.1101(i)(1) · Asbestos in construction	Serious	$5,390	$0	Nov 25, 2015	Final
Citation 1, item 5c 29 CFR 1926.1101(j)(1)(i) · Asbestos in construction	Serious	$5,390	$0	Nov 25, 2015	Final
Citation 1, item 8a 29 CFR 1926.1101(k)(3)(i) · Asbestos in construction	Other-than-serious	$5,390	$2,800	Nov 25, 2015	Final
Citation 1, item 8b 29 CFR 1926.1101(k)(9)(i) · Asbestos in construction	Other-than-serious	$0	$0	Nov 25, 2015	Final

Inspection 316227263 OPENED JAN 30, 2012Closed

Referral · Complete · Safety · 5 employees at the site · Closed Jun 11, 2012

901 E Street, Nw, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20001 · Site Preparation Contractors · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and rule	Type	Proposed	Current	Issued	Status
Citation 1, item 1 29 CFR 1926.55(a) · Gases, vapors, fumes, dusts, and mists	Serious	$6,300	$4,725	May 11, 2012	Closed

Inspection 310221122 OPENED AUG 24, 2006Closed

Referral · Complete · Safety · 3 employees at the site · Closed Sep 12, 2006

500 I St Nw, Washington, DC 20004 · All Other Specialty Trade Contractors · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and rule	Type	Proposed	Current	Issued	Status
Citation 1, item 1a 29 CFR 1926.95(a) · Criteria for personal protective equipment	Serious	$1,500	$1,500	Aug 29, 2006	Closed
Citation 1, item 1b 29 CFR 1926.453(b)(2)(v) · Aerial lifts	Serious	$0	$0	Aug 29, 2006	Closed
Citation 1, item 1c 29 CFR 1926.454(a)(1) · Scaffold training	Serious	$0	$0	Aug 29, 2006	Closed

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.

Mar 15, 2018, Washington: Hospitalization · fractures · lumbar region

An employee was helping to load a dump truck with construction debris when, unbeknownst to him, another employee lowered the truck's lift gate. When he attempted to walk backward out of the truck, the lift gate was no longer there to support him and he fell 3.5 feet to the lift gate below, fracturing his L1, L2, and L3 vertebrae.

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1926.1101 · Asbestos in construction

29 CFR 1926.1101(e)(1)

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29 CFR 1926.1101(f)(1)(i)

(f) Exposure assessments and monitoring—(1) General monitoring criteria. (i) Each employer who has a workplace or work operation where exposure monitoring is required under this section shall perform monitoring to determine accurately the airborne concentrations of asbestos to which employees may be exposed.

29 CFR 1926.1101(f)(2)(i)

(2) Initial Exposure Assessment. (i) Each employer who has a workplace or work operation covered by this standard shall ensure that a “competent person” conducts an exposure assessment immediately before or at the initiation of the operation to ascertain expected exposures during that operation or workplace. The assessment must be completed in time to comply with requirements which are triggered by exposure data or the lack of a “negative exposure assessment,” and to provide information necessary to assure that all control systems planned are appropriate for that operation and will work properly.

29 CFR 1926.453 · Aerial lifts

29 CFR 1926.454 · Scaffold training

29 CFR 1926.55 · Gases, vapors, fumes, dusts, and mists

29 CFR 1926.95 · Criteria for personal protective equipment

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Selective Demolition LLC: OSHA inspections and violations