Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 001 Hazard: FALLING

Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970: 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 the hazard of falls from elevated work stations while suspended in a single-point suspension scaffolds: In that, on or about 2/2/94, an employee was working from a singlepoint suspension scaffold suspended (rigged) from a structural steel beam of the building structure. The scaffold loadline and employee's lifeline had been rigged to the same structural steel beam. Among others, one feasible and acceptable method to correct/abate this hazard is to follow industry and scaffold manufacturers' guidelines such as but not limited to Scaffold Industry Association, Inc, Code of Safe Practices for Suspended Powered Scaffolds (Form 0108S); formally (Form 0104S), paragraph F1, which is contained in the Operators/ Safety Manual of instructions furnished by the scaffold manufacturer. "Lifeline(s) shall be rigged to a separate building support structure capable of carrying loads defined in governing