OSHA Inspection: VIRGINIA SITE CONCEPTS INC

Issued

Sep 22, 2008

Abate by

Sep 25, 2008

Penalty

Initial $3,000 · Current $3,000

General-duty citation text

Title 40.1-51.1.(A), Code of Virginia: 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:
(a) At this job site, approximately 100 metal form pins, being used in
sidewalk concrete forming operations
and protruding 4 to 15 inches above the forms, had not been guarded
exposing employee's to the hazard of
impalement.
(b) At this job site, approximately 10 metal form pins, being used in
sidewalk concrete forming operations, had
mushroomed heads exposing employee's to struck-by hazards.
"ONE FEASIBLE AND ACCEPTABLE ABATEMENT METHOD, AMONG OTHERS, TO CORRECT
THIS HAZARD IS TO INSTALL PLASTIC REBAR CAPS OR EQUIVALENT PROTECTION ON
PROTRUDING FORM PINS AND EITHER GRIND OR CUT OFF THE MUSHROOMED HEADS".