OSHA Inspection: CENTRAL VERMONT REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION

Issued

Jul 12, 2007

Abate by

Jul 18, 2007

Penalty

Initial $525 · Current $275 Reduced

General-duty citation text

21 VSA Title 23, Chapter 3, Sub-Chapter 5, Section 223(a): 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 struck by hazards associated to moving vehicles
and bus traffic on a main roadway.
Location: In the area of 134 Town Hill Road, Montpelier
Violation: 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 for the employee engaged in  setting,
securing, adjusting, maintaining and repairing of the automated traffic
vehicle counter device that includes two
black rubber hose/tubes that  perpendicular cross both lanes of the
roadway, was not provided with personal
protective equipment in the fashion of highly visible clothing, while
exposed to the moving traffic with a regulated
posted speed limit of 30 mile per hour.
Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable abatement method to
correct this hazard is: 1. Provide
employees with visible clothing in the form of uniforms, tee-shirt, vest,
or jacket to wear when engaged in work
on roadways. 2. Equipt employees with highway safety vests that can
include reflective and retro-reflective
materials that will be visible by motor vehicle operators to identify
employees working in roadway. 3. Train
employees on the identification of the hazards associated with exposure to
vehicle traffic while working on
roadways. 4. Provide closure to the area of the roadway where employees
will perform duties to exclude vehicle
traffic from entering the area where employees are working in the roadway.
5. Notify law enforcement authorities
to provide traffic diversion or control at the work area when employees
are working in the roadway. 6. Notify
and use private commercial traffic control companies who can provide a
service of controlling traffic by the use
of trained, approved, certified flaggers and traffic flagging equipment
and devices.