OSHA Inspection: LITTLE'S CONSTRUCTION LLC

Issued

Nov 15, 2012

Abate by

Nov 20, 2012

Penalty

Initial $2,100 · Current $2,100

General-duty citation text

40.1-50.1(a) of the Code of Virginia:  The employer, Little's
Construction, LLC , did not furnish a
place of employment which was free from recognized hazards that were
causing or likely to cause
death or serious physical harm to employee(s) in that employees were
working under the picnic
shelter with the 14 support posts set on concrete footers in 2 1/2  inches
of dirt and wet concrete,
with no anchor point, exposing employees to serious injury or death, from
collapse of the structure.
On September 6, 2012, at the construction site of the Shenandoah Valley
Academy's picnic
shelter at 234 W. Lee Hwy. in New Market, Virginia, two workers were
screeding concrete under
the picnic shelter as a concrete truck delivered concrete for the pad.
The owner of Little's
Construction, LLC was acting as a ground guide directing the driver as he
backed the truck into
position to disburse the concrete.  The ground guide slipped on the wet
ground and the concrete
chute struck the northeast corner post causing the structure to collapse.
The two worker(s) were
briefly trapped underneath the collapsed shelter.  Significant injuries
occurred.
One feasible and acceptable method, among other methods, to correct this
hazard would be to
comply with the Engineer's approved building plans, and/or Shenandoah
County Building Code
Specifications, which required each support post to be buried 3-feet in
the ground or secured by
an anchor point.

Issued

Nov 15, 2012

Abate by

Dec 18, 2012

Penalty

Initial $840 · Current $840