OSHA Inspection: C & S WHOLESALE GROCERS, INCORPORATED

Issued

Jan 9, 2003

Abate by

Feb 5, 2003

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $7,000

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 falling from
and/or with an elevated work platform that was not adequately secured to
the lifting carriage and/or forks of a
powered industrial truck:
(a)Row 41 In Warehouse Distribution Facility - An employee, who was
performing work
activities, fell approximately twenty-five (25) feet when the work
platform was pulled off the
forks because it was not adequately secured to the lift truck, on or about
November 20, 2002.
Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable method to correct this
hazard is to provide and adequately
secure work platform(s) to lifting carriage(s) and/or forks, in accordance
with ANSI/ASME B56.1 (2000),
Section 4.17.3(b), or utilize equipment such as scissors lifts.
VERIFICATION REQUIREDTION

Issued

Jan 9, 2003

Abate by

Feb 5, 2003

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $7,000

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 falling from
and/or with an inadequately secured elevated work platform that had made
contact with an overhead steel
beam obstruction while being positioned by a powered industrial truck:
(a)Row 41 In Warehouse Distribution Facility - An employee, who was
performing work
activities, fell approximately twenty-five (25) feet when the work
platform was pulled off the
forks because it was not adequately secured to the lift truck and had made
contact with an
overhead steel beam obstruction, on or about November 20, 2002.
Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable method to correct this
hazard is to adequately identify and
mark overhead obstructions and train employees to avoid overhead hazards,
in a ccordance with ANSI/ASME
B56.1 (2000), Section 4.17.3(j), while operating powered industrial
equipment.
VERIFICATION REQUIREDTION