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OSHA Inspection: DE-ESC JAMES GARFIELD

Complaint inspection · Safety discipline

On , OSHA opened a complaint safety inspection of DE-ESC JAMES GARFIELD in ESC JAMES GARFIELD CARR 103 KM 7.1 BO PEDERNALES, CABO ROJO, PR 00623 (NAICS 611110). OSHA activity number 308166487.

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Site address
ESC JAMES GARFIELD CARR 103 KM 7.1 BO PEDERNALES
City
CABO ROJO
State
PR
ZIP
00623
Mailing
PO BOX 190759, SAN JUAN, PR 00919
Inspection type
Complaint (B)
Scope
Partial (B)
Discipline
Safety
Advance notice
No
Union status
Y
Opened
Closing conference
Case closed
Last modified
Data loaded
NAICS code
611110
SIC code (legacy)
8211
Employees
21
Ownership type
C

1 citation on file for this inspection.

6A0001

Other-than-serious Gravity 10 1 instance 1 exposed
Issued
Abate by
Penalty
Initial $5000.00
Section 6(a) of the Puerto Rico Occupational Safety and Health Act:  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 physical harm to employees in
that employees were
exposed to:
Seccion 6(a) de la Ley de Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo de Puerto Rico:
El patrono no
proveyo empleo y un sitio de empleo libre de riesgos reconocidos que esten
causando o que
puedan causar muerte o dano fisico a los empleados, por cuanto empleados
estaban expuestos
a:
a)Several corporal trauma, contusions, lacerations, abrasions, multiples
fractures
and death in case of a partial or complete structure collapse.
Employees were working daily inside of a scholar dining room which have big
cracks in the walls, floor, columns and beams which could fall down at any
moment due a to teluric movements.  Such employees were walking underneath
of a concrete entrance cracked entirely that divide the warehouse area
from the
dinning room and could fall down too at any moment for the same situation.
Also outside area of such building there are more cracks and the concrete
bench
used by employees and students were separated from the walls.
Location:  At the James Garfield School dinning room, located at road 103
km
7.1 Bo. Pedernales Cabo Rojo PR.
Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable method to correct this
hazard
is the removing the employees that are working in such area until an
structural
engineer can perform a complete evaluation and a soil test of the building
to
demonstrate if the structure is secure for them and could decide between
remodeling or demolate the structure .
a)Trauma corporal severo, contusiones, laceraciones, abrasiones multiples
fracturas
y muerte en caso de un colapso parcial o completo de la estructura.
Empleados estuvieron trabajando diariamente en el interior de un comedor
escolar
el cual tiene grandes grietas en las paredes, pisos, columnas y vigas las
cuales se
pueden caer en cualquier momento debido a movimientos teluricos.  Dichos
empleados estuvieron trabajando por debajo de una entrada que esta
agrietada
completamente y que divide el area del almacen del comedor escolar y  que
tambien puede caerse en cualquier momento debido a la misma situacion.
Tambien en el exterior de dicho edificio hay mas grietas y los bancos de
cemento
el cual es utilizado por los empleados y los estudiantes estaban separados
de la
paredes.
Localizacion:  En el comedor escolar de la escuela James Garfield
localizada en
la carr. 103, km 7.1, Bo. Pedernales, Cabo Rojo, P.R.
Entre otros metodos, un metodo factible y aceptable para corregir este
riesgo es
la remocion  de los empleados que estan trabajando en dicha area hasta que
un
ingeniero estructural pueda realizar una evaluacion completa y un estudio
de suelo
del edificio para demostrar si la estructura es segura para ellos y pueda
decidir
entre remodelar o demoler la estructura."
Recent events (2)
  • — I (O)
  • — Z (S) $5000.00

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