39 COR 40-6688 [¶ 21,940]
ISSUANCE OF PERMITS - DEMOLITION
Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 341.1(f)(3) (2011) - Employer failed to obtain a demolition permit from Cal/OSHA prior to engaging in the demolition of a building.
INJURY AND ILLNESS PREVENTION PROGRAM (IIPP) - CODE OF SAFE PRACTICES (CSP)
Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 1509(c) (2011) - A CSP was not posted at Employer’s jobsite or readily available onsite from a supervisory employee.
DEMOLITION - WRITTEN SURVEY
Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 1734(b)(2) (2011) - A written survey of the structure to be demolished was not made by a qualified person, kept on the jobsite, made available to the Division upon request; or maintained for the duration of the demolition project.
DEMOLISHING BUILDINGS - DUST CONTROL
Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 1735(t) (2011) - Employer did not make provisions for the control of dust that included the use of water to keep material or debris sufficiently wet during demolition of a building.
DEMOLITION - SUPERVISION BY QUALIFIED PERSON
Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 1734(a) (2011) - Employer’s demolition work was not under the immediate supervision of a qualified person.
DEMOLITION - SURVEY OF STRUCTURE BY QUALIFIED PERSON
Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 1734(b)(1) (2011) - A survey of the structure to be demolished was not made by a qualified person prior to permitting employees to start demolition operations.
DEMOLISHING BUILDINGS - CONTINUING INSPECTIONS TO DETECT HAZARDS
Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 1735(d)(4) (2011) - Employer did not make continuing inspections of the structure as the demolition work progressed to detect hazards.
DEMOLISHING BUILDINGS - DISPLACED MATERIAL TRANSPORTED TO GROUND
Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 1735(e) (2011) - Employer did not immediately transport all displaced material to the ground at a building demolition site.
DEMOLISHING BUILDINGS - STEEL CONSTRUCTION DISMANTLING
Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 1735(n) (2011) - Employer did not dismantle the structure column length by column length, and tier by tier, which caused the structure being demolished to be overstressed.
FINANCIAL HARDSHIP
Employer failed to establish that it was entitled to penalty reduction based on financial hardship.