OSHA Inspection: CHURCHILL CORPORATION

Issued

Jul 30, 1986

Abate by

Feb 2, 1987

Penalty

Initial $240 · Current $240

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
the hazards of having part of their body caught between the moving
elevator and the hoistway.
A feasible and useful method to correct thishazard, among other methods
is the installation of elevator car doors or gates that would prevent
employees from having any part of their body outside the periphery of
the elevator car unless the elevator is within the landing zone and that
were electrically interlocked to prevent the elevator car from moving
unless the elevator car doors or gates are in the closed position:
a) Shipping/receiving:  The F.S. Payne elevator car was not equipped
with electrically interlocked car gates.

Issued

Jul 30, 1986

Abate by

Feb 2, 1987

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
the hazards of falling down the hoistway shaft when the elevator car was
not in the landing zone, being struck by the elevator car when the
entering or leaving the landing zone or having part of their body caught
between the moving elevator and the hoistway.
A feasible and useful method to correct this hazard, among other methods
is to provide elevator hoistway or landing with doors or gates to
prevent employees from having any part of their body within the hoistway
shaft, outside the periphery to the landing, unless the elevator is
within the landing zone and that were electrically interlocked to
prevent the elevator car from moving when the hoistway or landing doors
or gates are in the open position and so latched that the door or gates
cannot be opened from the landing side unless the elevator car is within
the landing:
a) Shipping/receiving:  The hoistway gates provided for the F.S. Payne
elevator were not at least 5 feet 6 inches in height nor were they
electrically and mechanically interlocked.

Issued

Jul 30, 1986

Abate by

Sep 2, 1986

Penalty

Initial $300 · Current $300

Issued

Jul 30, 1986

Abate by

Sep 2, 1986

Issued

Jul 30, 1986

Abate by

Sep 2, 1986

Issued

Jul 30, 1986

Abate by

Jul 31, 1986