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OSHA Inspection: COMAS & COMAS CONTRACTOR CORP

Accident-driven inspection · Safety discipline

On , OSHA opened an accident-driven safety inspection of COMAS & COMAS CONTRACTOR CORP in ZOOLOGICO DE PR CARR 108 BO MIRADERO, MAYAGUEZ, PR 00682 (NAICS 000000). OSHA activity number 304334881.

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Site address
ZOOLOGICO DE PR CARR 108 BO MIRADERO
City
MAYAGUEZ
State
PR
ZIP
00682
Mailing
PO BOX 6447, MAYAGUEZ, PR 00681
Inspection type
Accident-driven (A)
Scope
Partial (B)
Discipline
Safety
Advance notice
No
Union status
N
Opened
Closing conference
Case closed
Data loaded
NAICS code
000000
SIC code (legacy)
1542
Employees
7
Ownership type
A

2 citations on file for this inspection.

6A0001

Serious Gravity 10 1 instance 4 exposed
Issued
Jan 30, 2003
Abate by
Feb 4, 2003
Penalty
Initial $2,100 · Current $2,100
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:
Struck by heavy wire sets causing multiples fractures, severes contusions,
lacerations, abrasions, several body trauma and death.
a)At the remodeling project located in the Puerto Rico Zoo - Employees were
working continually in the process of dismantling some old wire cages,
using
an innapropiate, unsafe and dangerous method.  They placed a couple of
slings
connected to each wire set of the cages, which were pulled out by a digger
instead of use a crane or any other safer equipment to perform such
operation.
A machine as a digger was designed to work in other types of tasks such as
earth movement, perforation trench excavation etc, not to be used for other
purposes.  Due to the fact that employees performed the process of
dismantling on an unsafe way and used an innapropiate equipment to do it,
in
addition to the lack of employee unknowledge related to the recognition and
prevention of hazards at the worksite and the a direct and a continue
supervision by the competent person and the lack of hazard evaluation
before
during and after the operation was completed, an employee suffered an
accident when one of the wire sets of one of the cages with measures of
12'6"
x 18' with a weight nearly of 350 pounds or more fell down over him when
the digger pulled out the wire set aside in a stronger manner causing
feebleness in the wire set which hit the employee.  The employee was moved
to the Mayaguez Medical Center and then to the Rio Piedras Medical Center
where he died the next day due to a several body trauma and other
complications that he acquired.
Location:  At the area known as the old monkeys section, where the aviary
will be constructed.
Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable abatement method to
correct this hazard is the using in a safe manner the propper dismantling
equipment at the moment of perform this task including a complete training
to
the employees about the recognition and prevention of hazards at the
worksite
and a continue supervision of the competent person before, during and
after of
any operation is performed with a hazard evaluation prior any type of work
begins.
Ser golpeados por panos de alambres pesados ocasionando multiples
fracturas,
contusiones severas, laceraciones, abrasiones, severo trauma corporal y
muerte.
a)En el proyecto en remodelacion localizado en el Zoologico de Puerto Rico
-
Empleados estuvieron trabajando continuamente en el proceso de
desmantelamiento de varias jaulas de alambre viejas, utilizando un metodo
inapropiado, inseguro y peligroso.  Ellos colocaban un par de cadenas
conectadas a cada pano de alambre de las jaulas, las cuales fueron tiradas
por
una maquina excavadora en vez de utilizar una grua u otro equipo seguro
para
realizar dicha operacion.  Una maquina como una excavadora esta disenada
para trabajar en otros tipos de tareas tales como movimiento de tierra,
perforacion de excavacion tipo trinchera etc, no para ser utilizada para
otros
propositos.  Debido al hecho de que los empleados realizaron el proceso de
desmantelamiento en una manera insegura y utilizaron un equipo inapropiado
para hacerlo, ademas de la falta de conocimiento de los empleados
relacionado
al reconocimiento y prevencion de riesgos en el lugar de trabajo y de
supervision continua y directa por la persona competente y la falta de una
evaluacion de riesgos antes, durante y despues de que la operacion es
completada, un empleado sufrio un accidente cuando uno de los panos de
alambre de una de las jaulas con medidas de 12'6" x 18' con un peso
aproximado de 350 libras o mas, cayo sobre el cuando la maquina excavadora
tiro el pano de alambre de al lado de una manera fuerte ocasionando
debilidad
en el pano de alambre que le dio al empleado.  El empleado fue llevado al
Centro Medico de Mayaguez y luego al Centro Medico de Rio Piedras, donde
murio el dia siguiente debido al severo trauma corporal y otras
complicaciones
que adquirio.
Localizacion:  En el area conocida como la antigua seccion de los monos,
donde el aviario va a ser construido.
Entre otros metodos, un metodo de correccion factible y aceptable para
corregir este riesgo es utilizar de una manera segura el equipo apropiado
para
desmantelar al momento de realizar esta tarea incluyendo un adiestramiento
para los empleados acerca del reconocimiento y la prevencion de riesgos
en el
lugar de trabajo y una supervision continua de la persona competente antes,
durante y despues de que cada operacion es realizada y una evaluacion de
riesgos antes de que cualquier tipo de trabajo comience."

1926.21 B02

Serious Gravity 10 1 instance 4 exposed
Issued
Jan 30, 2003
Abate by
Feb 4, 2003

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