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

Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970: The employer did not furnish to each of his employees a place of employment which was 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 being caught between the billet transfer car and the stationary billet cooling/exit table. a) Employees were allowed to work on, between and around the railroad tracks on the south end of the south cooling table without any means to protect them from being caught between or struck-by the steel billet transfer car. The Quality Control Lab Technician would commonly mark the steel billets while standing at the corner where the cooling/exit table and the transfer car tracks intersect and it was also an acceptable practice for the Quality Control Lab Technician to walk on or between the tracks when the transfer car was in the billet yard to perform a visual inspection of the steel billets. These conditions exposed employees to struck-by/caught between hazards. Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable method to correct this hazard is to install controls that would require that the employee continuously depress the control button to move the transfer car, which separates the point of operation from the point of contact. Disclaimers: 1. You are not limited to the abatement methods suggested above. 2. The methods explained are general and may not be effective in all cases. 3. The employer is responsible for selecting and carrying out an appropriate method of abatement.e