OSHA Inspection: FEULING CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION, INC.

Issued

Sep 5, 2001

Abate by

Sep 23, 2001

Penalty

Initial $1,500 · Current $1,500

General-duty citation text

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 in that
employees were exposed
to crushing injuries from falling trucks while riding on the running
boards to avoid walking to
the worksite:
On or about June 4, 2001, W8421 Shorewood Meadow Circle in Lake Mills, WI -
While getting ready to back down a driveway, two employees of Feuling
Concrete
Construction (FCC), jumped onto the driver's side running boards of a Sun
Prairie
Concrete S-Series Truck to avoid walking to the work site.  About a third
of the way
down the driveway, the truck tipped over towards the driver's side,
denting the concrete
barrel and crushing an employee, while the other laborer of FCC was able
to
avoid the
falling truck.  After being flown to the University of Wisconsin Hospital,
the victim was
pronounced dead at 12:08pm of 6/4/01.
Feuling Concrete Construction did not adequately train its employees in
that unauthorized
employees rode the side of a S-Series concrete truck.
IN THE ALTERNATIVE:
29 CFR 1926.21(b)(2): The employer did not instruct each employee in the
recognition and
avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his work
environment to control
or eliminate and hazards or other exposure to illness or injury.
AMONG OTHER METHODS, ONE FEASIBLE AND ACCEPTABLE ABATEMENT
METHOD TO CORRECT THIS HAZARD WOULD BE TO:
1. Follow the Driver's Manual handed to Sun Prairie Concrete drivers which
addresses riding
on concrete trucks.  Issued by the National Ready Mixed Concrete
Association
(NRMCA),
Safety Rule #22 on page 15 states, "Only authorized personnel may ride on
any equipment and
then only inside the cab."
2. Provide appropriate transportation to the work site if necessary.

Issued

Sep 5, 2001

Abate by

Sep 10, 2001

Penalty

Initial $1,500 · Current $1,500