OSHA Inspection: TEXOMA CONTRACTING, INC.

Issued

Sep 7, 2005

Abate by

Sep 12, 2005

Penalty

Initial $1,500 · Current $1,125 Reduced

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 subject to fall when they were hoisted
approximately 240'
up a communication tower and lowered from that level while suspended from
the winch line
of a truck.  The following specific hazards occurred:
1.Employees were hoisted up the communication tower with a winch that was
not designed to hoist people.  Said winch was manufactured by dp Winch,
model SB11 52816, serial number 02055296L.
2.An employee was hoisted on the load line while coaxial cable was hoisted
into
position on the tower.  The cable being hoisted was subject to have been
caught on the tower or other fixed object which would have substantially
increased the load on the hoisting equipment and could have resulted in the
failure of said equipment or the rigging suspending it in the tower.
These recognized hazards occurred prior to and including April 26, 2005 on
the site of the
Watonga (Oklahoma) downtown cellular tower.  Among other methods, one
feasible and
acceptable abatement method to correct these hazards would be to use a
hoist designed to
hoist employees and to prohibit employees from being raised or lowered
whenever other
loads were being raised or lowered.

Issued

Sep 7, 2005

Abate by

Sep 12, 2005

Penalty

Initial $2,100 · Current $1,575 Reduced

Issued

Sep 7, 2005

Abate by

Sep 12, 2005

Penalty

Initial $750 · Current $565 Reduced

Issued

Sep 7, 2005

Abate by

Sep 12, 2005

Penalty

Initial $2,100 · Current $1,575 Reduced