OSHA Inspection: SANDWICH IRON FOUNDRY INC

Issued

Nov 18, 1985

Abate by

Dec 18, 1985

Penalty

Initial $600 · Current $195 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
the hazards of being:
a) struck or crushed by the moving hoist platform while walking into or
out of the cupola pouring room;
b) caught or crushed between parts of the hoist platform and its
surrounding or supporting structure while riding as a passenger on
the platform;
c) traumatically injured while riding as a passenger should the hoist
platform fall to the bottom landing;
d) traumatically injured as a result of falls down the hoistway or as a
result of objects falling down the hoistway from the upper landing or
hoistway.
Employees transported barrow loads of coke, limestone, and scrap iron
while riding and unenclosed material hoist platform from the cupola
pouring floor at ground level 15 feet upward in an open hoistway to the
cupola charging floor, using an underslung material hoist as a drive
mechanism.  No part of this hoistway, hoistway structure, hoist platform
or accessory and control equipment met the accepted engineering practice
for construction, installation, operation, testing, or maintenance as
set forth in the American National Safety Code for Elevators, Escalators
and Moving Walks, ANSI a 17.1-1982, and particularly those parts of this
standard dealing with:
a) hoistways, hoistway enclosures, and related structures;
b) machinery and equipment for electric elevators;
c) driving machines, terminal stopping devices, operating devices,
control equipment, hoisting ropes and their connections;
d) the testing, inspection, and maintenance of all parts of an elevator
and its appurtenances when used for personnel.
Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable method to reduce these
hazards is to assure that:
1) effective immediately, employees be prohibited from using the
material hoist as an elevator for carrying people;
2) fence or enclose both the lower landings and the upper landing
at all times with barriers or gates interlocked with the hoist's
power supply so that the hoist cannot move while any employee is in
the lower landing area or while the material hoist platform is being
loaded or unloaded;
3) the hoist platform and the hoistway are sufficiently enclosed so
that materials cannot fall either from the hoist platform down the
hoistway or from the cupola charging floor down into the hoistway and
so that no one outside of the hoistway can be exposed to any of its
moving parts and machinery;
4) the methodology or process is changed so that it no longer is
necessary for any one employee to go repeatedly from ground level to
the copola charging floor and back again during the cupola charging
process and so that when any such travel is necessary, a stairway or
some other safe alternative be used.

Issued

Nov 18, 1985

Abate by

Dec 2, 1985

Penalty

Initial $400 · Current $130 Reduced

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Nov 18, 1985

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Nov 25, 1985

Penalty

Initial $700 · Current $230 Reduced

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Dec 2, 1985

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Nov 25, 1985

Penalty

Initial $400 · Current $130 Reduced

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