Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 002 Hazard:

29 CFR 1926.21(b)(2): The employer shall instruct each employee in the recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions and the regulations applicable to his work environment to control or eliminate any hazards or other exposure to illness or injury. a. On North Street Road adjacent to the property located at 7137 North Street Road, NW, Newark, Ohio, employees were exposed to struck-by hazards while removing temporary traffic control devices from a rural hilly two-lane roadway without employing positive protection or other acceptable means of protection. the employees had not received training on the procedures for retrieving traffic control signs when dismantling a temporary traffic control zone, had not received training on the hazards associated with working in or crossing live lanes of high speed traffic when traffic visibility was limited by the topography of the traffic control zone, and had not received training on the safety measures to be taken to protect themselves, such as but not limited to the use of a shadow vehicle or police assistance. b. On North Street Road adjacent to the property located at 7137 North Street Road, NW, Newark, Ohio, employees were exposed to struck-by hazards while removing temporary traffic control devices from a rural hilly two-lane roadway without employing positive protection or other acceptable means of protection. On or about August 11, 2017, an employee was injured by a southbound vehicle while standing outside the company's work truck after having loaded temporary traffic control devices from the shoulder of the north-bound lane into the back of the parked vehicle. The work truck was parked partially in the south-bound lane and all upstream south-bound temporary traffic control devices had been removed.