OSHA Inspection: QUALITY STATE OIL CO INC

Issued

May 4, 2005

Abate by

May 8, 2005

Penalty

Initial $3,500 · Current $2,500 Reduced

General-duty citation text

Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970:  The
employer did not
furnish employmnent 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 fall hazards while climbing a ladder on the back end of a
fuel truck:
a)  On 3-29-05, at 1200 N. 24th Street in Manitowoc, WI, an employee was
fatally injured as
a result of a fall from a ladder on the back end of a fuel truck.  The
employee, while carrying
a five-gallon container of fuel additive up the ladder, was exposed to a
fall hazard of three to
ten feet above the ground.
Feasible abatement methods would be to follow 1926.1053(b)(21) by
maintaining three-point
contact while going up or down a ladder and 1926.1053(b)(22) by not
carrying an object or load
up or down a ladder;  raise the container up to the top of the truck with
a rope; use a mobile
ladder; siphon the liquid from the container with the container on the
ground.
Abatement Certification and Abatement Documentation required.