OSHA Inspection: L. WORNAT & CO.

Issued

Sep 5, 1997

Abate by

Sep 10, 1997

Penalty

Initial $2,100 · Current $2,100

General-duty citation text

Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970:
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 hazard of being crushed by falling concrete
floor slab from
above level:
(a)  On or about April 7, 1997 employee working on the second floor level
of the Wingate
Inn Motel construction site was fatally crushed by falling concrete floor
slab. Slab number
E-73 fell after slab E-8 was erected and set on concrete walls.  The
supporting angle irons
(lentil's) were unattached and the embed plates were not installed;
consequently, the angle
irons were not welded. One feasible and acceptable corrective method to
this hazard was to
follow the instructions and details provided by the blue prints.