OSHA Inspection: BRASFIELD & GORRIE, LLC

Issued

Jun 3, 2002

Abate by

Jun 6, 2002

Penalty

Initial $1,250 · Current $1,250

General-duty citation text

SCRR 71-112A: Failed to furnish a place of employment which is free of
recognized hazards
which may cause death or serious physical harm to his employees and comply
with this
regulation and other occupational safety and health rules and regulations
promulgated under
Chapter 15 of Title 41, Code of Laws, State of South Carolina, 1976, as
amended, as
follows:
A.  Employer knew or should have known that employees working in close
proximity to
short lightning rods with sharp points on top of short parapet wall on
roof near elevator shaft
were exposed to the hazard of falling onto the rods and being impaled.  A
feasible and useful
method to correct this hazard among other methods is to cap each rod with
a guard fabricated
out of wood.
B.  Employer knew or should have known that employees working in close
proximity to
short lightning rods with sharp points on top of short parapet wall on
roof at front of
building were exposed to the hazard of falling onto the rods and being
impaled.  A feasible
and useful method to correct this hazard among other methods is to cap
each rod with a
guard fabricated out of wood.