BATON ROUGE, LA ·
OSHA Inspection: GM CABLE CONTRACTORS
Planned inspection · Safety discipline
At a glance
On , OSHA opened a planned safety inspection of GM CABLE CONTRACTORS in BLUEBONNET BLVD BETWEEN BLU CROSS BLVD AND GALL AVE, BATON ROUGE, LA 70809 (NAICS 238210). OSHA activity number 338916968.
OSHA opens inspections for many reasons: routine scheduling under a national or local emphasis program, an employee complaint or referral, or a follow-up after a reported injury. Opening or conducting an inspection is not itself an allegation or a finding that this employer broke any rule; any findings appear as the citations listed below, and citations can be contested, reduced, or withdrawn.
Where did this inspection happen?
- Establishment
- GM CABLE CONTRACTORS
- Site address
- BLUEBONNET BLVD BETWEEN BLU CROSS BLVD AND GALL AVE
- City
- BATON ROUGE
- State
- LA
- ZIP
- 70809
- Mailing
- 9232 JOOR DR, BATON ROUGE, LA 70818
What kind of inspection was it?
- Inspection type
- Planned (H)
- Scope
- Partial (B)
- Discipline
- Safety
- Advance notice
- No
- Union status
- Non-union (B)
When did the case open and close?
- Opened
- Closing conference
- Case closed
- Last modified
- Data loaded
Establishment context
- NAICS code
- 238210
- Employees
- 70
- Ownership type
- Private (A)
Citations
1 citation on file for this inspection.
1926.453 B02 V
- Issued
- Mar 25, 2013
- Abate by
- Mar 29, 2013
- Penalty
- Initial $1,821 · Current $1,093 Reduced
General-duty citation text
29 CFR 1926.453(b)(2)(v): A body belt shall be worn and a lanyard attached to the boom or basket when working from an aerial lift. On or about 02/15/2013, the employer did not ensure that employees working in the basket of an aerial lift were wearing a body belt as a positioning device or a full body harness, both with lanyards attached to the bucket or boom of the lift. Employees were observed working from an aerial lift tightening fiber optic cable at the locations below without being atttached to the bucket or boom with a belt or harness. The bucket was at an elevation of 20 ft. INSTANCES: a. At the corner of Bluebonnet Blvd and Blue Cross Blvd, Baton Rouge LA. b. Near the corner of Gall Ave and Bluebonnet Blvd, Baton Rouge LA.
Recent events (2)
- · I (S) $1092.6
- · Z (S) $1821
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Source
This record is reproduced from the U.S. Department of Labor Open Data API (OSHA inspection dataset). OSHA publishes its own view of this case as inspection number 338916968.
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