OSHA Inspection: COMPANIA DE AGUAS DE PUERTO RICO

Issued

Apr 6, 2000

Abate by

Apr 25, 2000

Penalty

Initial $2,000

General-duty citation text

Section 6(a) of the Puerto Rico Occupational Safety and Health Act:  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 physical harm to employees in
that employees were
exposed to:
Seccion 6(a) de la Ley de Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo de Puerto Rico:
El patrono no
proveyo empleo y un sitio de empleo libre de riesgos reconocidos que esten
causando o que
puedan causar muerte o dano fisico a los empleados, por cuanto empleados
estaban expuestos
a:
In the front Yard of the Bulk Discharge Sampling Station: Employees were
observed
going up and down a metal stairway, twenty four (24) inches wide and
eleven (11) feet
high, with railing on both sides, with a top platform forty six (46)
inches long and twenty
four (24) inches wide, to open top hatch of the tank truck or take samples
of
used water
from tank trucks with a ten (10) foot pole in the sampling area.  Four (4)
feet over the
parked tank trucks next to the platform at a horizontal five (5) foot
reach from the
platform.  Hazard: Tripping from striking cables.
Abatement method: Move stairway away from cables.
En el patio del frente de la Caseta de Muestreo de Descarga a Granel:
Empleados fueron
observados subiendo y bajando una escalera de metal, de veinte y cuatro
(24) pulgadas
de ancho y de once (11) pies de altura con una plataforma en la parte
superior de
cuarenta y seis (46) pulgadas de largo y veinte y cuatro (24) pulgadas
para abrir la
compuerta superior de camiones tanques o para tomar muestras de aguas
usadas de los
camiones tanques con una vara de diez (10) pies en el area de tomar
muestras.  A cuatro
(4) pies sobre los camiones tanques estacionados al lado de la plataforma
cruzan cables
a un alcanze horizontal de cinco (5) pies desde la plataforma.  Riesgo:
Tropiezos con
cables.
Metodo de correccion: Alejar la escalera de los cables.a

Issued

Apr 6, 2000

Abate by

May 2, 2000

Penalty

Initial $2,000

Issued

Apr 6, 2000

Abate by

Apr 13, 2000

Issued

Apr 6, 2000

Abate by

Apr 12, 2000