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

29 CFR 1926.960(c)(2)(ii)(B): The employer did not ensure that employees continually wore rubber insulating gloves and sleeves while capable of reaching into the employer's established minimum approach distance, as established under paragraph (c)(1) of this section. On or about 9/19/17, at the overhead power lines across the street from 3279 Elliswood Street, Sulphur, LA; the employer allowed an employee to remove his rubber-insulating sleeves within the minimum approach distance, while connecting a field phase wire near an energized jumper line and made contact with the energized line.