OSHA Inspection: SUNNYSIDE FARM

Issued

Jul 22, 2003

Abate by

Jul 29, 2003

Penalty

Initial $750 · Current $750

General-duty citation text

Code of Virginia - 40.1-51.1 (a):   The employer, Sunnyside Farm, did not
furnish each of their employees a safe place
of employment and employment which was free from recognized hazards that
are causing or likely to cause death or
serious physical harm to employees, in that employees were exposed to
fractures, and/or affixation from falls that could
occur while scraping manure into the open pit.
At Sunnyside Farm on Sunnyside Lane in Rixeyville, Virginia, employees
(dairymen) who clean the yard, were exposed
to falls into a manure pit, when they would remove the 1 inch wide grate,
in order to scrap manure into the pit.
On feasible and acceptable abatement method, among others, to correct this
hazard is to install a wider grate, under the
removable 1 inch grate (that will prevent inadvertent falls),  that
remains in place when the dairymen raise the top grate
to scrape the manure into the pit.