OSHA Inspection: DEL VALLE GROUP S E

Issued

Sep 17, 1999

Abate by

Sep 25, 1999

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 due to overturned of the machine into an
excavation 20 feet
in depht.  An employee used an excavator trademark Samsung, model: 210LC,
serial #
SBY1136 to lift a concrete tube 3 feet wide x 16 feet long and 430 pound
aproximately.
Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable abatement method to
correct
this
hazard is to used a crane to lift the concrete tube.
a.  Recibir heridas serias debido a volteo de la maquina en una excavacion
de 20 pies de
profundidad.  Un empleado usaba una excavadora marca Samsung, modelo: 210
LC #
de serie:  SBY1136 para levantar un tubo de concreto de 3 pies de ancho x
16 pies de
largo, de 430 libras aproximadamente.  Entre otros metodos, un metodo
aceptable y
posible para corregir este riesgo es usar una grua para levantar el tubo
de concreto.