OSHA Inspection: CARIBBEAN WELDERS INC

Issued

Dec 4, 1997

Abate by

Dec 8, 1997

Penalty

Initial $1,500 · Current $1,500

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:
a.Receive serious injuries or death from fall. An employee was working at
a height
of 36 feet approximately on a beam of a 126 feet x 136 feet steel building
being
assemble, without the safety belt attached to an anchorage by means of a
lifeline,
as a part of a complete fall arrest system. Among other methods to correct
this
hazard a feasible and acceptable one is to install an anchorage and a
lifeline to
attach the safety belt.
a.Recibir lesiones serias o muerte debido a caidas. Un empleado estaba
trabajando
a 36 pies de altura aproximadamente, sobre una viga de un edificio de acero
estructural de 126 pies x 136 pies que se estaba ensamblando, sin el
cinturon de
seguridad atado a un anclaje por medio de una linea salvavida, como parte
de un
sistema personal para detener caidas. Entre otros metodos correctivos, uno
seguro
y aceptable es instalar un anclaje y una linea salvavida para conectar el
cinturon
de seguridad.