OSHA Inspection: OTIS W BAREFOOT DBA BAREFOOT BUILDERS

Issued

Jul 26, 2002

Abate by

Jul 31, 2002

Penalty

Initial $250 · Current $250

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)site - the employer did not properly brace each truss exposing the
employees to
the truss collapse.  Employees were engaged in plumbing the trusses while
pulling
on the loosened braces causing the trusses to break and collapse.  Among
other
methods, one feasible and acceptable abatement method to correct this
hazard is
to ensure that bottom chord diagonal bracing repeated at each end of the
structure,
lateral bracing lapped at least two trusses, and sufficient temporary
cross bracing
pattern are applied to support the trusses.