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

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 are exposed to thermal, electrical, struck by and caught between hazards associated with performing repetative maintenance task without having developed a standard procedure from which to perform that task and remove the potential for an employee to be injured. The employer is failing to protect the employees from potential electrical, thermal and caught between hazards associated with repairing the sump pump in the basement of the facility. The most recent example of this was found in the basement of facility located at 14401 S. 5th Street, Omaha, NE 68123 where the employer has employees repairing the sump pump without having developed any standard procedure where by the employer had taken time to assess the hazards associated with this task, identify the tools or equipment required to perform this task or trained any of the exposed employees on how to implement these procedures in order to reduce the potential for injury. One or more feasible abatement methods: (a) The company shall develop a written procedure on replacing or performing maintenance on the sump pump where all foreseen hazards are identified, any that may be addressed by engineering controls corrected and all necessary PPE needed be identified to perform this task. (b) Train all exposed employees on the implementation of that written procedure to include the step by step process for removing the pump from the sump hole and replacing the pump back into service in the sump hole. The employer shall also identify which types of actions that were previously accepted or have gone uncorrected (steam as a method of heating the water and melting the coagulated grease) will not be used from this point forward. (c) Identify which employees will perform this work and thus require training to perform this task. Abatement certification and abatement documentation is required for this violation. The documentation should include written verification of abatement, applicable measurements or monitoring results, and photographs or videos which you believe will be helpful. The abatement certification sheet is enclosed with the citations.