OSHA Inspection: CAMPBELLSVILLE INDUSTRIES, INC.

Issued

Aug 6, 1997

Abate by

Aug 11, 1997

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 an approximate fall hazard of 120 feet to the
ground below:
(a) Campbellsville construction project, located at White Clay
Presbyterian Church,
Polly Drummond Hill Road & Kirkwood Highway, Newark DE  19711 - 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's 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.