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

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 up to approximately 7 feet from an unsecured and unprotected wooden pallet on a powered industrial lift truck: (a)Sorting area, on or about 6/16/98; an employee was raised and lowered approximately 7 feet by a Clarklift fork truck Model #TM20, serial number TM247-1023-909-1FB, while standing on a wooden pallet which was held up by the truck's forks. The pallet was not secured to the forks and did not have guardrails. The employee was attempting to remove boxes of paper cups from a stack of pallets containing the boxes. Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable abatement method to correct this hazard is to use a safety platform with guardrails that is secured to the lifting carriage and/or forks of the truck as stipulated by ANSI B56.1-1993, Section 4.17.2 and 4.17.3, American National Standard for Powered and Nonpowered Industrial Trucks (Safety Standard for Low Lift and High Lift Trucks). ABATEMENT CERTIFICATION REQUIREDATION