OSHA Inspection: CUMBERLAND COUNTY SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

Issued

Sep 7, 2005

Abate by

Oct 25, 2005

Penalty

Initial $1,750 · Current $1,575 Reduced

General-duty citation text

North Carolina General Statute 95-129(1) of the Occupational Safety and
Health Act of North Carolina:  The
employer did not furnish each of his employees conditions of employment
and a place of employment free from
recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death or serious
physical harm to employees in that
employees were exposed to caught in/between hazards when loading compactor
boxes for transportation:
a)site - where the employer did not have written procedures, based on a
hazard assessment
and evaluation, including prohibited practices and training requirements
for truck drivers
and site attendant employees who assist them with loading compactor boxes
onto tilt-frame container trucks.
ABATEMENT NOTE:  Among other methods, one feasible method to reduce this
hazard would be to
train employees on prohibited practices and provide individual training on
specific equipment which the
employee may be expected to encounter.
REFERENCE: ANSI Z245.1-1999, for Equipment Technology and Operations for
Waste
and Recyclable
Materials-Mobile Wastes and Recyclable Materials Collection,
Transportation, and Compaction
Equipment Safety Requirements, Clause (Paragraph) 9.2.1; "The employer's
program must include at a
minimum the following elements; a) A hazard assessment in which the
employer conducts a review of the
various types of collection and transportation equipment which the
employer utilizes and the hazards
associated with them, including sampling or measurements, where
appropriate, to the type of hazard, as
well as the persons who may potentially encounter those hazards;  b) An
evaluation of the means of
controlling the hazards identified in the hazard assessment, including
information such as industry and
regulatory requirements; instructions for the operation, inspection, and
maintenance of equipment; and
literature, surveys, and other information appropriate to the hazards that
are identified; c) A written
program based upon the hazard assessment and evaluation, to include
procedures for the operation,
inspection, and maintenance of equipment, prohibited practices, record
keeping, training requirements and
normative references to documents, such as operating manuals, that are
relied upon and may be required
as part of that program;  d) A program, conforming to clause 9.3, for the
implementation of the written
program, and e) periodic reviews and program revisions as necessary to
ensure the effectiveness of the
safety program."