Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 001B Hazard:

29 CFR 1926.454(a): The employer did not have each employee who performed work while on a scaffold trained by a person qualified in the subject matter to recognize the hazards associated with the type of scaffold being used and to understand the procedures to control or minimize those hazards: a) Job site, 6524 State Highway 30, Jeanette, PA: On or about November 20, 2013, prior to working on a pre-fabricated walkthrough type scaffold during building exterior construction activities, the employer did not ensure that a worker was provided scaffold safety training. Deficiencies noted during the inspection included, but were not limited to, the lack of baseplates being used appropriately, missing crossbrace sections, using an unsafe method of access/egress to get onto/off of the scaffold, failing to use the correct size crossbraces to secure scaffold frames together, lack of using pins to join scaffold frames together and failing to ensure that the scaffold was plumb and level.