Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 002 Hazard:

29 CFR 1926.454(b)(2): The employer did not have each employee who was involved in erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, maintaining, or inspecting a scaffold trained by a competent person to recognize any hazards associated with the correct procedures for erecting, disassembling, moving, operating, repairing, inspecting, and maintaining the type of scaffold in question. 34 Spring Street, Williamstown, MA : On or about December 10, 2019 two employees had not been trained by a competent person in the erecting, dismantling, moving, operating repairing, maintaining or inspecting of the mobile elevated work platform (Genie AWP 40S) that they were using. Among other specific scaffold training deficiencies, the hazard of changing the height of the Genie AWP 40S stabilizer pads while the basket was still raised and occupied by an employee was not communicated. Specific abatement documentation that this violation has been corrected must be provided within 10 days of the abatement in accordance with 29 CFR 1903.19(d)(1).