OSHA Inspection: REISCH LOGGING

Issued

Oct 19, 1989

Abate by

Oct 22, 1989

Penalty

Initial $400 · Current $200 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) The guyline directly behind the Washington 150 yarding machine
was attached to a stump which had been pulled, causing the stump to
move, and the stump and guyline had been covered with six logs from
the cold deck to act as an additional anchor causing a hazard of
death or serious physical harm to employees; the yarding engineer,
chaser, loading operator, and four log truck drivers were exposed
to guyline failure which would cause the tower to fall on the
employees.
Among other methods, two feasible and acceptable methods to correct
this hazard are:
1) Provide a deadman anchoring system using logs buried in the soil,
and
2) Using a crawler tractor with the blade dug into the soil to one-half
its depth or two feet.

Issued

Oct 19, 1989

Abate by

Oct 27, 1989

Penalty

Initial $160 · Current $80 Reduced