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

Section 5(a)(1) of Public Law 91-596, 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: Being struck by equipment that are picked up by hooks without a throat latch and hooks that are used below the lifting hooks to lift objects such as steer hubs weighing approximately two hundred pounds and scrap metal which has not been tested by a qualified person to determined the rated load, and or loads suspended from a electric chain hoist and a two ton crane used to load scrap metal to the furnace. (a)Machine Shop: Employees were not protected from the hazard of being struck by and /or crushed by equipment and or the suspended load of an electric chain hoist due to failure of the hook safety latch not in place to prevent loads from falling from the hook. (b)Furnace Area: Employees were not protected from the hazard of being struck by and/or crushed by equipment and /or suspended load of a two ton Shaw Box crane used at the pour dock to load scrap metal to the furnace throat latch missing from the hook. (c)Shipping and Receiving: Employees using a Gorbel half ton capacity crane were not protected from the hazard of being struck by and/or crushed by equipment and or the suspended load of an electric chain hoist due to failure of the hook safety latch not in place to prevent loads from falling. Among others, one feasible and useful abatement method to correct this hazard is to: Comply with the requirements of ANSI Code, American Society of Mechanical Engineers B30.10a-1996, Hooks. Comply with the requirements of ANSI Code B30.20a-1996, Below the Hook Lifting Devices, Section 20-1.2 Marking and Construction.