Violation Detail
Standard Cited: 5A0001 OSH Act General Duty Paragraph
Inspection Nr: 97669.015
Citation: 01001
Citation Type: Serious
Abatement Date: 03/30/2012 2
Initial Penalty: $7,000.00
Current Penalty: $7,000.00
Issuance Date: 02/06/2012
Nr Instances:
Nr Exposed: 5
Related Event Code (REC): A;R
Gravity: 10
Report ID: 0830500
Contest Date:
Final Order: 02/28/2012
Emphasis:
| Type | Latest Event | Event Date | Penalty | Abatement Due Date | Citation Type | Failure to Abate Inspection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penalty | I: Informal Settlement | 02/28/2012 | $7,000.00 | 03/30/2012 | Serious | |
| Penalty | Z: Issued | 02/06/2012 | $7,000.00 | 03/07/2012 | Serious |
Text For Citation: 01 Item/Group: 001 Hazard:
OSH ACT of 1970 Section (5)(a)(1): 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 crushing injuries while working inside the danger zone of energized machinery. (a) Hayward Baker, Inc. 1501 Maroon Creek Road, Aspen, CO: On or before August 11, 2011, the exposing employer did not establish methods to maintain and ensure the reliability of the Emergency Stop Button on the Geotechnical drill. The employer did not conduct daily testing (pre-shift and after a drill move) to ensure the remote control emergency stop device was capable of stopping the geotechnical drill in the event of an emergency. Employees troubleshooting the Geotechnical drill were not capable of stopping the inadvertent rotation of the drill steel in a timely manner. As a result, an employee was fatality injured after becoming entangled with the rotating drill steel. (b) Hayward Baker, Inc. 1501 Maroon Creek Road, Aspen, CO: On or before August 11, 2011, the emergency-stop device on the geotechnical drill was improperly designed and/or installed in that the failure of the device would not prevent activation of the drill. As installed, the emergency-stop device required electrical current to function as a stop device. Accordingly, the emergency-stop device was incapable of preventing activation of the drill when the electrical conductor supplying current to the stop device was disconnected, inadequately connected, or it otherwise failed. The failure or opening of the circuit supplying electrical current to the emergency stop device should have disabled the power to machine and prevented inadvertent activation of the drill. The inadvertent activation of the drill resulted in an employee being fatality injured after becoming entangled with the rotating drill steel. (c) Hayward Baker, Inc. 1501 Maroon Creek Road, Aspen, CO: On or before August 11, 2011, the employer had not developed and implemented safe work procedures for troubleshooting and repairing an improperly working Geotechnical drill. Among other things, employees engaged in troubleshooting and/or repair work should have been required to shut down the rig when the work could feasibly be performed while the rig was shut down, and the employer should have ensured that all persons were out of the zone of danger when the rig was restarted. As a result of the failure to develop and implement safe work procedures for such work, an employee was fatally injured after becoming entangled with the drill steel that unexpectedly began rotating. Among other feasible and acceptable abatement methods to correct this hazard are: (a) To design and install emergency stop circuitry that automatically shuts down the power unit in the event of an internal electrical fault in the emergency stop circuitry. (b) To follow the published Davey Drill safety manual. Page 3 and 4 of the manual state that the emergency shut-down system must be checked daily, and that repairs to the rig should not be attempted until the rig is shut down completely.
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