OSHA Inspection: BUCKEYE FORESTRY SERVICE,LLC

Issued

2011-07-27 00:00:00

Abate by

2011-08-02 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $4200.00 · Current $2100.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 5a.0001: Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act
of 1970:  The
employer did not furnish 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 or ran over by commercial highway vehicle.
a) On or about May 27, 2011, an employee was being exposed to being struck
by and or ran
over by a commercial highway dump truck vehicle while attempting to start
and starting the
vehicle from underneath the vehicle chassis without the application or
availability of a parking
brake.
Among other methods two feasible and acceptable method to correct this
hazard would be to
follow; 1) the Construction Industry Manufactures Association (CIMA)
Safety Manual for
Operating and Maintenance Personnel, (section 12) Start Safely; and 2)
Follow
the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation 49 CFR
393.41 (c)(2),
"The parking brake system shall at all times be capable of being applied
in conformance with
the requirements of paragraph (a) of this section by either the driver's
muscular effort, or by
spring action, or by other energy, provided, that if such other energy
shall be isolated from any
common source and used exclusively for the operation of the parking
brake"g