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

29 CFR 1910.22(c): The employer must provide, and ensure each employee uses, a safe means of access and egress to and from walking-working surfaces. (a) East grain bucket elevator's vertical fixed ladder and the distributor platform - on or about January 9, 2020, the employer failed to ensure that safe means of access and egress were provided from the ladder to the platform. Employees side-stepping from the ladder, through the cage opening, and taking diagonal step across open air space to get onto the platform were exposed to fall hazards up to 100 feet likely to result in death or serious injury. (b) East, grain bin No. 10, roof stairs and drag conveyor's catwalk - on or about January 9, 2020, the employer failed to ensure that safe means of access and egress were provided from the top end of the roof stairs at the peak to the overhead drag conveyor's catwalk. Employees climbing the support elements of the drag conveyor's catwalk and going over the guardrails to get on the catwalk above were exposed to 85 foot fall hazards likely to result in death or serious injury. (c) West grain bin No. 1 (bin chart section U, bin No. 2), roof walking area from the drag conveyor catwalk's north vertical fixed ladder to the southeast "45 degree" roof ladder leading to the inspection hole - on or about April 1, 2020, the employer failed to ensure that safe means of access and egress were provided from the catwalk's roof access ladder to the inspection hole access ladder. Employees going to the inspection hole to take grain bin inventory measurements were exposed to 70 foot fall hazard likely to result in death or serious injury. (d) West grain bin No. 2 (bin chart section U, bin No. 1), drag conveyors' upper east and lower west catwalks - on or about April 1, 2020, the employer failed to provide safe means of access and egress from the upper catwalk to the lower catwalk. Employees had to climb from the fixed ladder onto the horizontal drag conveyor's enclosure and then get down to the lower catwalk. Employees getting off/on the enclosure were exposed to fall hazards likely to result in death or serious injury. Abatement documentation is required for these items in accordance with the requirements of 29 CFR 1903.19(d).