OSHA Inspection: CORRIGAN'S CUSTOM BUILT STRUCTURES

Issued

Jul 7, 2004

Abate by

Jul 12, 2004

Penalty

Initial $1,000 · Current $1,000

General-duty citation text

Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970:  The
employer did not
furnish employmnent 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 injuries from falling off of an improperly guarded
platform suspended
by a rough terrain fork lift.
At the site, employees were exposed to multiple injuries and or death
created by the use
of an elevated work platform which was not designed, constructed, and/or
used in accordance
with the acceptable requirements of the American Safety Standards for
Rough Terrain Forklift
Trucks, ASME / ANSI B56.6a-1998 and other acceptable industry practices.
For example, the
platform did not meet the following design and use requirements of
sections 8.25 and 5.15 of
ASME / ANSI B56.6a in the following areas: (1) Restraining means such as a
guardrail or a
means for securing personnel such as a body belt or harness. (2) Did not
have
the maximum
work load and empty weight information prominently marked on the platform,
(3) Controls were
not installed on the elevating platform and/or an operator at the controls.
a) An employee was lifted in a fabricated manbasket approximately 24 feet
high without
midrails at the side entrances nor were body harnesses used..
b) An employee was left to work on an elevated work platform approximately
24 high
while the operator of the lift truck left the area to cut materials.
c)  The work platform did not have a load rating tag/plate.
Among other methods, feasible and acceptable means to correct these
hazards are to use
safer alternate methods such as a scaffold or use a platform approved by
the manufacturer
meeting the design, manufacture, and requirements or ASME/ANSI B56.6a-1998
for all
attachments on rough terrain forklifts
No Abatement Certification or Abatement Documentation required.tion