OSHA Inspection: C C MIDWEST INC.

Issued

May 25, 2000

Abate by

Jun 21, 2000

Penalty

Initial $4,500 · Current $4,000 Reduced

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:
a)Employees, and or dock contract employees, walking, working, and
operating powered
industrial trucks in trailers at the terminal dock were exposed to the
hazard of falling in
or from trailers, or being struck by falling cargo in the trailers, due to
trailers being
inadvertently pulled from the dock while employees were still inside.
Among others, feasible and acceptable means to correct this hazard would
be:
A.Take steps by July 23, 2000, to develop a means to identify trailers,
from outside the
dock, that were not closed out / safe to be moved. (At the time of the
inspection a chain
was placed across the trailer doors indicating that it was not to be
entered, but the chain
was not visible from outside the dock.)
B.Take steps to label / identify dock doors so that door numbers can be
read from outside
the dock while a trailer is parked at the door. (At the time of the
inspection, dock door
numbers on the outside of the dock were not blocked from view when a
trailer was
parked in front of the door.)
C.Take steps by July 23, 2000, to re-paint lines identifying lanes on the
pavement in front
of dock doors and include door numbers with the lane markings. (At the
time of the
inspection, lane lines painted on the pavement in front of the doors were
faded ? illegible
and the lines were not identified as to which door they corresponded with.)
D.Take steps to label the dock doors so that they can be readily
identified from inside the
dock. (At the time of the inspection, door numbers were not marked inside
the
dock
except by a computer display on a monitor mounted between two dock doors.
The
monitor displayed one of two door numbers, rather than both.)
b)Contract dock employees operating powered industrial trucks were exposed
to the hazard
of being caught beneath / struck by the truck or overhead guard in the
event of truck
tipover in that the employees operating the lift trucks were not protected
by seat belts or
an equivalent restraint system.
Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable method to correct this
hazard would be, in
accordance with ASME B56.1 The American National Standard for Powered and
Nonpowered
Industrial Trucks, to install and require the use of, either the seat belt
system that was designed
and installed as original equipment for these types of lift trucks, or an
equivalent operator
restraint system.

Issued

May 3, 2000

Abate by

May 22, 2000

Penalty

Initial $63,000 · Current $45,000 Reduced

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:
Employees walking and working in trailers at the terminal dock were
exposed to the hazard of
falling in or from trailers, or being struck by falling cargo in trailers,
in that adequate steps were
not taken to minimize the potential for inadvertently pulling the wrong
trailer from the dock,
while employees were still inside.
Among others, feasible and acceptable means to correct this hazard would
be:
A. Take steps to develop a means to identify trailers, from outside the
dock, that were not
closed out / safe to be moved. ( At the time of the inspection a chain was
placed across the
trailer doors indicating that it was not to be entered, but the chain was
not visible from outside
the dock.)
B.Take steps to label / identify dock doors so that door numbers can be
read from outside the
dock while a trailer is parked at the door. ( At the time of the
inspection, dock door numbers
on the outside of the dock were blocked from view when a trailer was
parked in front of the
door.)
C.Take steps to re-paint lines identifying lanes on the pavement in front
of dock doors and
include door numbers with the lane markings. ( At the time of the
inspection, lane lines painted
on the pavement in front of doors were faded / illegible and the lanes
were not identified as to
which door they corresponded with.)
D.Take steps to label the dock doors so that they can be readily
identified from inside the dock.
( At the time of the inspection door numbers were not marked inside the
dock except by a
computer display on a monitor mounted between two dock doors. The monitor
displayed one
of two door numbers, rather than both.)