OSHA Inspection: NORTHERN CONSTRUCTION DYNAMICS

Issued

Mar 17, 2004

Abate by

Mar 23, 2004

Penalty

Initial $450 · Current $450

General-duty citation text

Title 21 V.S.A. Chapter 3, Subchapter 5, Section 223 (a), 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 to employees, in
that employees were exposed to serious burn or electrocution from damaged
welding cables.
Location: A) Front entrance door of the facility.
B) Inside the building, at the front, adjacent to the support column.
Violation: Welding cables in location A) were pinched by the closing
action of the spring loaded, and metal
framed entrance door and B) welding cables run along the concrete floor at
the front of the facility, were run
over by such heavy equipment as the mobile, vertical, personnel lift,
(which, at the time of the inspection, was
parked on a welding cable). Among other feasible methods to correct this
hazard... physically guard welding
cables that run in proximity to damaging equipment, or run welding cables
in such a way as to remove them
from proximity of potentially damaging equipment.

Issued

Mar 17, 2004

Abate by

Mar 23, 2004