OSHA Inspection: ROBINSON AVIATION (RVA), INC.

Issued

2008-10-22 00:00:00

Abate by

2008-12-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $2250.00 · Current $2250.00

General-duty citation text

Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970: The
employer did not
furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of 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:
a) Employees were exposed to the hazards of suffocation, burns or other
serious bodily harm
or death in the Air Traffic Control Tower at the FAA Air Traffic Control
Tower located in
Key West, Florida. The agency head failed to follow the approved alternate
standard, FAA
Manual 3900.19, Chapter 12, Life Safety and Fire Protection Requirements
for Air Traffic
Control Towers, in that:
1) Install fire and smoke dampers, fire stop insulation and proper fire
stopping material
essential in preventing combustible gases from moving upward, throughout
each
compartment, or workarea.
2) The fire evacuation plan and fire alarms were not comprehensive and, it
also did not
instruct personnel to use periodic fire drills were not held at (a minimum
of one drill
annually).
Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable abatement method to
correct these hazards
is to follow prior abatement agreement between OSHA and FAA and to assure
physical
inspection for compliance.
The NFPA, Joint Commission, ICC, and Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.,
requires periodic
inspections of fire and smoke dampers to ensure that the dampers are
operable.