OSHA Inspection: CLARK RESIDENTIAL

Issued

Nov 8, 2004

Abate by

Nov 11, 2004

Penalty

Initial $975 · Current $975

General-duty citation text

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 a tipover hazard:
Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable abatement method to
correct the hazard is
establish and enforce the requirement for operators of powered industrial
trucks which are
equipped with operator restraint devices or seat belts to use the devices
as stipulated in the
current versions of ANSI B56.1, consensus standard for powered industrial
trucks; ASME/ANSI
B56.1a-1989 Addenda to ASME/ANSI B56.1-1988, and ASME B56.1-1993 Standard
for Low
Lift and High Lift Trucks. In addition, seat belts have been supplied by
many manufacturers of
counterbalanced, center control, high lift trucks which have a sit-down
nonelevating operator
position. Also, some manufacturers have instituted retrofit programs
(a)Garage Entrance -  paragraph 5.3.19 of American National Standards
Institute
(ANSI) B 56.1c-1991 (Safety Standard for Low Lift and High Lift Trucks),
the
safety foreman was not required to use seatbelts/restraints devices to
reduce
entrapment of the operator's head and/or torso between the fork lift truck
in the
event of a tipover, on or about 10/25/04.