OSHA Inspection: THOMAS MARKEZINIS DBA THOMAS PAINTING & DECORATING

Issued

Dec 19, 1985

Abate by

Dec 22, 1985

Penalty

Initial $640 · Current $180 Reduced

General-duty citation text

Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act pf 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:  painters painting the
underside of a four-lane highway bridge were exposed to electric burns,
electric shock and electrocution, and to massive traumatic injuries or
drowning from falls of up to 70 feet onto railroad tracks and trestles,
concrete piers, and to the river and river banks below caused by
electric shock while working on bridge bents, ladders and narrow
unguardrailed aluminum scaffold stages resting on wire rope bearers
stretched parallel to and beneath the steel bridge girders and crossing
and crossing directly above and within 15 feet or less of three 7200-
volt (to ground) and 12,000-volt (phase-to-phase)  uninsulated and
fully energized electric conductor cables.
A feasible method to abate these hazards must include but is not limited
to the following essentials:
1) Prior to starting work on any part of the bridge which crosses above
or close enough to such conductors that wire ropes, scaffolds or
scaffold parts, ladders, or any other conductive or potentially
conductive tools, supplies, materials or equipment could touch such
conductors, the electric utility shall be contacted and that work
shall not begin until the electric utility has either de-energized
and effectively grounded the three conductors on both sides of any
potential contact area or blanketed, insulated or otherwise
effectively shielded them from all possible contact.
2) Prior to dismantling or removing wire ropes, scaffolds, scaffold part
ladders, or any other conductive or potentially conductive tools
supplies, materials, or equipment, to assure that the protection
provided is still effective and that accidental contact during such
operations will not result in ground faults or short circuits.

Issued

Dec 19, 1985

Abate by

Dec 22, 1985

Penalty

Initial $640 · Current $180 Reduced

Issued

Dec 19, 1985

Abate by

Dec 22, 1985

Issued

Dec 19, 1985

Abate by

Dec 22, 1985

Issued

Dec 19, 1985

Abate by

Dec 22, 1985

Issued

Dec 19, 1985

Abate by

Dec 22, 1985

Issued

Dec 19, 1985

Abate by

Dec 22, 1985

Issued

Dec 19, 1985

Abate by

Dec 22, 1985

Penalty

Initial $640 · Current $120 Reduced

Issued

Dec 19, 1985

Abate by

Dec 22, 1985

Penalty

Initial $640 · Current $120 Reduced

Issued

Dec 19, 1985

Abate by

Dec 22, 1985

Issued

Dec 19, 1985

Abate by

Dec 22, 1985