OSHA Inspection: PEERLES OIL & CHEMICALS INC

Issued

Sep 4, 2002

Abate by

Sep 17, 2002

Penalty

Initial $2,400 · Current $1,680 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:
a.  Receive serious injuries due to falls from  workplatforms (40 feet
long x 30 inches
wide) on the top of trucks, where load / unload operations were performed
at 10  feet
high (aprox) from the ground level, when employees go from one side to the
other side
of the platform, while doing his job duties.  Among other nethods, one
feasible
and
acceptable abatement methodd to correct this hazard is to install an
aerial turnbuckle
cable as a part of a fall personal arrest system.
a.  Recibir lesiones serias debido a caidas de plataforma de trabajo  (40
pies de largo x
30 pulgadas de ancho) en el tope de camiones, donde operaciones de
carga/descarga
fueron efectuadas a una altura de 10 pies aprox. desde el piso, mientras
el empleado va
de una parte a otra plataforma del camion, mientras realiza su trabajo.
Entre otros
metodos, un metodo seguro y confiable para corregir este riesgo es
instalar un cable
tensor como parte de un sistema personal de detencion de caidas.on