OSHA Inspection: ARLINGTON COUNTY, DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES

Issued

Sep 9, 2010

Abate by

Oct 12, 2010

General-duty citation text

Title 40.1-51.1(A) Code of Virginia: The employer, Arlington County,
Department of Environmental Services,
did not furnish employment and a place of employment which was free from
recognized hazards that were
causing or likely to cause death or serious bodily harm to employees in
that an employee was exposed to
moving vehicular traffic while working outside the work zone.
At the job site, located at Columbia Pike and S. Wakefield Street,
Arlington, Virginia, employees were
performing traffic signal maintenance from an Altec AT-30-G telescopic
aerial device mounted on a 2009 Ford
F-450 chassis.  The truck was parked in the right shoulder lane of
eastbound Columbia Pike and the employee
was working in the bucket over the left eastbound lane, which was open to
vehicular traffic.  A 2007
Freightliner moving van traveling east on Columbia Pike struck the bucket
of the aerial device.  The bucket and
the employee were thrown forward and spun into a traffic signal pole.  The
employee suffered fatal injuries.
One feasible and acceptable abatement method to correct this hazard is for
the
employer to require employees
working over a roadway to close those lanes. The Virginia Work Area
Protection Manual, dated May 2005,
states in 6G-10,  "When work is being performed over a roadway open to
traffic (on bridges, overhead signs,
traffic signals, etc.) the traveled lane(s) or shoulder that the work
operation is over shall be closed, unless it is
physically improbable materials, equipment or personnel could fall into
the open lane or shoulder."

Issued

Sep 9, 2010

Abate by

Oct 12, 2010

General-duty citation text

Title 40.1-51.1(A) Code of Virginia: The employer, Arlington County,
Department of Environmental Services,
did not furnish employment and a place of employment which was free from
recognized hazards that were
causing or likely to cause death or serious bodily harm to employees in
that an employee was exposed to
moving vehicular traffic while working outside the work zone.
At the job site, located at Columbia Pike and S. Wakefield Street,
Arlington, Virginia, employees were
performing traffic signal maintenance from an Altec AT-30-G telescopic
aerial device mounted on a 2009 Ford
F-450 chassis.  The truck was parked in the right shoulder lane of
eastbound Columbia Pike.  There was no
shadow vehicle or truck mounted attenuator (TMA) being utilized.
One feasible and acceptable abatement method to correct this hazard is for
the employer to require employees to
utilize a shadow vehicle or "Road Work Ahead" sign.  The Virginia Work
Area Protection Manual, dated May
2005, states in 6H-26,  "A truck mounted attenuator (TMA) shall be used on
the second shadow vehicle in the
travelway regardless of the posted speed limit.  If the first shadow
vehicle occupies any part of the travel lane,
it shall be equipped with a TMA, or replaced with the "Road Work Ahead"
sign.