OSHA Inspection: CITY OF WINSTON-SALEM - CITY/COUNTY UTILITIES

Issued

Oct 14, 2008

Abate by

Oct 17, 2008

Penalty

Initial $1,750

General-duty citation text

NCGS 95-129(1) 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 being struck by vehicular
traffic:
a)construction demolition landfill - for the employee(s) performing waste
stream
analyses at the working face of the landfill while trucks were dumping
waste, on
4/23/08 an employee conducting waste stream analyses was struck and dragged
nine feet by the tailgate door of a truck dumping construction waste.
Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable abatement method to
correct
the hazard and to prevent the recurrence of such hazards, is to remove the
spotter
from the moving truck hazard. This could be accomplished by requiring that
the
spotter do waste stream analysis from a truck or bulldozer cab.dozer