OSHA Inspection: STRAIGHTWAY CONSTRUCTION, INC.

Issued

Dec 3, 2015

Abate by

Dec 9, 2015

Penalty

Initial $4,900 · Current $3,430 Reduced

General-duty citation text

Section 5(a)(1): 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 employees were exposed to falls and struck-by injuries from a truss collapse:      (a)    On or about September 24, 2015 for employees exposed to fall and struck-by hazards while setting prefabricated trusses approximately twenty feet high without temporary diagonal bracing at the Salt Storage building at or near 8100 43rd Avenue NE in Bismarck, North Dakota.      Abatement Note: Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable method to correct this hazard would be to adhere to the BCSI, Building Component Safety Information BCSI-B2 Truss Installation & Temporary Restraint/ Bracing, and Building Component Safety Information BCSI-B1 Summary Sheet, Guide for Handling, Installing, Restraining and Bracing of Trusses which states  It is critical to note that all Lateral Restrains must be braced. Lateral Restraint by itself is not adequate to resist the buckling forces in the members to which it is attached without the rigidity provided by Bracing. Bracing is typically provided by adding Diagonal Bracing within the same plane of the Lateral Restraint or by anchoring the Lateral Restraint to a lateral force resisting member such as a shear wall.

Issued

Dec 3, 2015

Abate by

Dec 9, 2015

Penalty

Initial $4,900 · Current $3,430 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.501(b)(15): Each employee on a walking/working surface 6 feet (1.8 meters) or more above lower levels were not protected from falling by a guardrail system, safety net system, or personal fall arrest system:    (a)    On or about September 24, 2015 for employees exposed to fall hazards of approximately twenty feet while walking top plates to set prefabricated trusses at Salt Storage building at or near 8100 43rd Avenue NE in Bismarck, North Dakota.

Issued

Dec 3, 2015

Abate by

Dec 23, 2015

Penalty

Initial $0 · Current $0

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.503(c)(3): The employer did not retrain affected employees  who already had been trained but demonstrated inadequate  understanding and skill required by paragraph (a) of this section:   (a)    On or about September 24, 2015 for employees exposed to fall hazards of approximately twenty feet while walking top plates to set prefabricated trusses and tying off to inadequate secured truss webbing at Salt Storage building at or near 8100 43rd Avenue NE in Bismarck, North Dakota.