OSHA Inspection: TRI-COUNTY ASPHALT CORP.

Issued

Jan 11, 1991

Abate by

Jan 15, 1991

Penalty

Initial $1,000 · Current $1,000

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 hazard of being crushed by an overloaded vehicle overturning during
unloading operation:
a) Tri-County Asphalt Corp, Eisenhower Parkway, Roseland, NJ
Employee(s) were exposed to an overloaded tractor and dump trailer
whose gross vehicular weight (GVW) was 86,600 pounds (lbs), being
emptied by raising the body. This weight was not in conformity with
the manufacturers specification of a maximum GVW of 80,000 lbs, nor,
with the New Jersey State Department of Transportation standard
39:3-84.3 maximum of 80,000 lbs. GVW.
Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable abatement method to
correct this hazard is to not allow loading, or acceptance, of tractor
dump trailers in excess of 80,000 pounds gross vehicular weight.
Violation occurred on or about 7/20/90