OSHA Inspection: K MART CORPORATION(STORE #3428)

Issued

2003-01-23 00:00:00

Abate by

2003-02-06 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $1925.00 · Current $1925.00

General-duty citation text

North Carolina General Statute 95-129(1) of the Occupational Safety and
Health Act of North
Carolina:  The employer did not furnish each of his employees conditions
of employment and
a place of employment free from recognized hazards that were causing or
likely to cause
death or serious physical harm to employees in that employees were exposed
to:
a)being caught between the forklift's frame and the ground in the event the
vehicle was up-set or turned over.  The operator was not wearing the
installed
seat belts while operating the Toyota, 4000 lb, forklift, s/n 62780, in the
warehouse/garden shop
Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable abatement method to
correct this
hazard was to require the operator to wear the installed seat belts while
operating the
forklift.
(References:  ASME/ANSI B56.1a-1989, Addenda to ASME/ANSI B56.1-1988, and
ASME B56.1-1993 - Safety Standard for Low Lift and High Lift Trucks.)