OSHA Inspection: TRI-COUNTY METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT OF

Issued

Jul 8, 2009

Abate by

Aug 8, 2009

Penalty

Initial $325 · Current $325

General-duty citation text

ORS 654.010:  The employer did not furnish a place of employment which was
safe and
healthful for employees, did not furnish and use such devices and
safeguards, and did not adopt
and use such practices, means, methods, operations and processes as was
reasonably necessary
to render such employment and places of employment safe and healthful, and
did not do every
other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, safety, and health
of the employees:
a) Employees were exposed to being struck-by vehicles while conducting
flagging operations in
a complex traffic/pedestrian intersection located at Interstate and
Holiday near the Rose Quarter
in Portland, Oregon. Employees were not trained/certified as flaggers, did
not have advanced
warning devices to warn motorists of flaggers in the roadway, and were
flagging in conflict with
traffic signals.