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: (a) 6/14/93 at the jobsite, a freight elevator was in service which had no rear car enclosure gate, no capacity plates, no minimum load permitted, no top enclosure, no internal lighting, and no maintenance inspection certificate or service test certificate as required by ANSI/ASME A17.31986 and BOCA 1984. Employees were exposed to serious fall injuries should the elevator fall down the shaft or employee falls out the back side. Feasible and acceptable methods among others to correct the hazard is to: 1) Comply with ANSI/ASME A17.3-1986 and BOCA 1984. 2) Conduct periodic inspections of elevator as recommended by the ANSI/ASME & BOCA Standards to insure integrity of interlocks,ropes & switches for gates and equipment, & document above. 3) Post minimum & maximum load rating on capacity plates as recommended in standards. 4) Fully enclose the freight elevator car as recommended by standards. 5) provide internal illumination as recommended. A search of the OSHA Standards has been conducted and there are no applicable standards.