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

21 VSA Title 23, Chapter 3, Sub-Chapter 5, Section 223(a): 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 struck by hazards associated to moving vehicles and bus traffic on a main roadway. Location: In the area of 134 Town Hill Road, Montpelier Violation: 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 for the employee engaged in setting, securing, adjusting, maintaining and repairing of the automated traffic vehicle counter device that includes two black rubber hose/tubes that perpendicular cross both lanes of the roadway, was not provided with personal protective equipment in the fashion of highly visible clothing, while exposed to the moving traffic with a regulated posted speed limit of 30 mile per hour. Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable abatement method to correct this hazard is: 1. Provide employees with visible clothing in the form of uniforms, tee-shirt, vest, or jacket to wear when engaged in work on roadways. 2. Equipt employees with highway safety vests that can include reflective and retro-reflective materials that will be visible by motor vehicle operators to identify employees working in roadway. 3. Train employees on the identification of the hazards associated with exposure to vehicle traffic while working on roadways. 4. Provide closure to the area of the roadway where employees will perform duties to exclude vehicle traffic from entering the area where employees are working in the roadway. 5. Notify law enforcement authorities to provide traffic diversion or control at the work area when employees are working in the roadway. 6. Notify and use private commercial traffic control companies who can provide a service of controlling traffic by the use of trained, approved, certified flaggers and traffic flagging equipment and devices.