OSHA Inspection: CIDRA EXCAVATION, S.E.

Issued

Oct 7, 2003

Abate by

Oct 16, 2003

Penalty

Initial $2,500 · Current $1,250 Reduced

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:
Employees exposed to the hazard of fall from the excavator arm. At Cidra
Excavations,
located on Road Pedro Arzuaga Corner Faernandez Juncos, Carolina: the
employees
were digging a trench to change the sanitary sewer pipes. The employees
that climbed
to the excavator arm, to tie the telephone cables because they bothers the
movement of
the excavator arm. Among other methods to correct this hazardis, to give
to the
employees a fall protection training as established in the standard
1926.503(a).
Empleados expuestos al riesgo de caer del brazo de la excavadora. En Cidra
Excavations,
localizado en la calle Pedro Arzuaga Esquina Fernanndez Juncos, Carolina:
los
empleados estaban excavando una trinchera para cambiar tuberia de
alcantarillado
sanitaria. El empleado que trepo al brazo de la excavadora para amarrar
unos cables de
telefono porque molestaban el movimiento del brazo de la excavadora. Entre
los metodos
para corregir este riesgo es, darle a los empleados un adiestramiento en
proteccion contra
caida como lo establece la norma 1926.503(a).

Issued

Oct 7, 2003

Abate by

Oct 16, 2003

Penalty

Initial $700 · Current $350 Reduced