OSHA Inspection: K & M HIGHLINE SERVICES

Issued

2019-12-20 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-02-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9282.00 · Current $5570.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.950(b)(2)(iv): The employer did not ensure that employee was not trained in the proper use of the special precautionary techniques, personal protective equipment, insulating and shielding materials, and insulated tools for working on or near exposed energized parts of electric equipment.     On or about July 11, 2019, employees were exposed to electrical shock and electrocution hazards where employees were not trained in special precautionary techniques or equipment for working on or near exposed energized parts.

Issued

2019-12-20 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-02-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $0.00 · Current $0.00

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.950(b)(2)(v): 29 CFR 1926.950(b)(2)(v): The employer did not ensure that each employee had the required training to recognize electrical hazards to which the employee may be exposed and the skills and techniques necessary to control or avoid these hazards:     On or about July 11, 2019, employees were exposed to electrical shock and electrocution hazards where the qualified person was not trained in the recognition of electrical hazards that might be unique to a specific installation of electrical power line transmission poles.

Issued

2019-12-20 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-02-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9282.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.960(c)(1)(iii)(B): The employer did not ensure that no employee approaches or takes any conductive object closer to exposed energized parts than the employer's established minimum approach distance unless the energized part is insulated from the employee and from any other conductive object at a different potential.    On or about July 11, 2019, employees were exposed to electrical shock and electrocution hazards where the employer failed to ensure that conductive material attached to the pole was insulated from energized parts.

Issued

2019-12-20 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-02-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9282.00 · Current $5570.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.952(a)(2): The employer did not ensure the employee in charge conducted a job briefing that met paragraphs (b), (c), and (d) of this section with the employees involved before they started each job.    On or about July 11, 2019, employees were exposed to electric shock and electrocution hazards where the employer failed to ensure that the employee in charge conducted an adequate job briefing to identify any specific hazards associated with the work to be conducted.

Issued

2019-12-20 00:00:00

Abate by

2020-02-10 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $9282.00 · Current $5570.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.960(d)(1): Working from below. The employer did not ensure that each employee, to the extent that other safety-related conditions at the worksite permit, works in a position from which a slip or shock will not bring the employee's body into contact with exposed, uninsulated parts energized at a potential different from the employee's.    On or about July 11, 2019, employees were exposed to electric shock and electrocution hazards where the employer failed to ensure that work was performed from below exposed, uninsulated, energized parts.