OSHA Inspection: DAVE HALL INC.

Issued

Aug 6, 1997

Abate by

Aug 11, 1997

Penalty

Initial $2,000 · Current $500 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 an approximate fall hazard of 120 feet to the
ground below:
(a) Dave Hall, Inc., construction project, located a White Clay Creek
Presbyterian
Church, Polly Drummond Hill Road and Kirkwood Highway, Newark, DE  19720 -
an
employee installing a cross on top of a sixty-five foot high steeple, was
sitting in a boatswain
chair suspended from a Grove crane.  The use of a crane or derrick to
hoist employees on a
boatswain chair is prohibited.
Note:
Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable abatement method to
correct
this hazard
is to use equipment, such as, but not limited to, an approved personnel
hoist, ladder,
stairway, aerial lift, elevating work platform or scaffold.