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

Section 6(a) of the Puerto Rico Occupational Safety and Health Act: 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 physical harm to employees in that employees were exposed to: Seccion 6(a) de la Ley de Seguridad y Salud en el Trabajo de Puerto Rico: El patrono no proveyo empleo y un sitio de empleo libre de riesgos reconocidos que esten causando o que puedan causar muerte o dano fisico a los empleados, por cuanto empleados estaban expuestos a: At the "Autoridad Metropolitana de Autobuses" mechanical workshop, employees performed mechanical, electromechanical, and carpentry works; motors and transmissions cleaning; air conditioner and transmissions repairs, among others. The employer allowed employees to raise buses in car lifts with mechanical damages and poor maintenance. Some of the lifts lowered on their own, others had oil leaks, the car lift at the motor cleaning area did not have the safety mechanism to prevent an abrupt fall. Hazard: Sliperings in oil and get trapped under the car lift. Among other correction methods, some feasible and acceptable methods to correct this hazard are: (a)To provide the necesary materials for the employees that gives the maintenance to the car lifts. (b)To provide a direct supervision to make possible an effective maintenance. (c)To provide a faster procedure to correct mechanical damages, assigning responsibilities. En el taller de mecanica de la Autoridad Metropolitana de Autobuses, empleados realizaron trabajos de mecanica, electromecanica, y carpinteria; lavado de motores y transmisiones, arreglo de acondicionadores de aire y transmisiones, entre otros. El patrono permitio que empleados levantaran guaguas en pinos con desperfectos mecanicos y poco mantenimiento. Algunos se bajaban solos, otros tenian escapes de aceite, el pino del area de lavado de motores no tenia el mecanismo de seguridad para evitar el que se baje abruptamente. Riesgo: Resbalones en aceite y quedar pillado bajo el pino. Entre otros metodos de correccion, varios metodos aceptables y posibles para corregir este riesgo son: (a)Proveer los materiales necesarios para los empleados que dan mantenimiento a los pinos. (b)Que haya una supervision directa para que se de un mantenimiento mas efectivo. (c)Proveer un procedimiento mas agil para corregir desperfectos mecanicos, asignando responsabilidades.