OSHA Inspection: SUPRADUR MANUFACTURING CORP

Issued

Jan 29, 1988

Abate by

Dec 31, 1989

Penalty

Initial $480 · Current $480

Hazardous substances 8880

General-duty citation text

Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970: The
employer did not furnish employment and a place of employment which were
free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death
or serious physical harm to employees in that employees were exposed to
serious injury from lifting tasks:
a) Asbestos Charging: Employees manually lift one hundred and ten pound
bags of asbestos from pallets onto a charging table thus exposing
employees to musculoskeletal injuries, August 27, 1987.
b) Rhoplex (takeoff end): Employees manually lift forty pounds of
shingles from the takeoff end of the Rhoplex machine and transfer
the shingles onto a cart, thus exposing employees to musculoskeletal
injuries, August 27, 1987.
c) Veneer Charging: Employees manually lift fifty pound bags of
Sil-Co-Sil, & Portland limestone, ninety four pound bags of Portland
(type 1) and one hundred and ten pound bags of asbestos from pallets
onto a charging table, thus exposing employees to musculoskeletal
injuries, August 27, 1987.
The evaluation of these manual lifting tasks indicate that employees
are exposed to an increased rise of musculoskeletal injuries in
populations exposed to similar lifting conditions. The injury and
illness records for 1985 and 1986 documented that there was a pattern
of musculoskeletal/overexertion injuries.
STEP 1 - Effective administrative protection, such as employee training,
physical assessment, job rotation, etc. shall be provided as an
interim protective measure until feasible engineering or
permanent administrative controls can be implementede which
will reduce employee exposure to nominal risk.
STEP 2 - Submit to the Area Director a written, detailed plan of
abatement outlining a schedule for the implementation of
engineering or administrative measures to control employee
injury due to manual lifting tasks. Engineering controls to
reduce musculoskeletal stresses include, but are not limited to
job redesign, reduction of the horizontal and vertical load
distance from the body, reduction of the lifting frequency, or
weight, and use of mechanical lifting aids. This plan shall
include at a minimum, target dates for the following actions
which must be consistent with the dates required by this
citation.
1) Evaluation of the conditions, locations and manual lifting activities
that the employees are performing at the onset of musculoskeletal
injuries.
2) Evaluation of applicable control measure(s).
3) Procurement, installation and operation of selected control measures.
4) Monitoring to assure effective utilization of the control measure(s).
STEP 3 - Abatement shall have been completed by implementation of
feasible engineering or administrative controls, upon
verification of their effectiveness in reducing the occurrence
of musculoskeletal injuries.

Issued

Jan 29, 1988

Abate by

Feb 3, 1988

Hazardous substances 9020