Violation Detail
Standard Cited: 5A0001 OSH Act General Duty Paragraph
Inspection Nr: 110072758
Citation: 01002
Citation Type: Serious
Abatement Date: 05/18/1992 X
Initial Penalty: $4,000.00
Current Penalty: $4,000.00
Issuance Date: 04/14/1992
Nr Instances: 1
Nr Exposed: 6
Related Event Code (REC): A
Gravity: 10
Report ID: 0418200
Contest Date:
Final Order:
Emphasis:
Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 002 Hazard: LIFTING
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 the hazard of being struck by collapsing steel post and cables due to improper erection procedures: (a) Employees were in process of hoisting the center truss of the roof cable system. Among other methods one feasible and acceptable abatement method to correct the hazard is to insure engineering calculations are done to determine and verify the structural adequacy of the attachment plate assemblies for the erection loads to which these plate assemblies were subjected during the jacking sequence o erection of the roof cable system. (b) Employees lifting the roof cable structures were not continuously monitored to insure proper erection sequence. Among other methods include but not limited to feasible and acceptable abatement method to correct this hazard. Adequate measures were not taken to insure that construction loading did not overstress attacchment plates. There were no engineering analyze done on the attachment plates to insure stability of structure at various stages during the erection process.
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