OSHA Inspection: AMERICAN BRIDGE-FLUOR JOINT VENTURE

Issued

2013-08-20 00:00:00

Abate by

2013-08-27 00:00:00

Penalty

Initial $7000.00 · Current $0.00 Reduced

General-duty citation text

29 CFR 1926.1425(c): When employees are engaged in hooking, unhooking, or guiding the load, or in the initial connection of a load to a component or structure and are within the fall zone, all of the following criteria must be met: (1) The materials being hoisted were not rigged to prevent unintentional displacement; (2) Hooks with self-closing latches or ther equivalent were not used.  Exception: "J" hooks are permitted to be used for setting wooden trusses. (3) The materials were not rigged by a qualified rigger:    At the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge East Span Seismic Safety Project during the temporary works demolition truss removal - Towers D through F on or about February 21, 2013, and at times prior there to, when engineers, iron workers, crane operators, and oiler were in the fall zone engaged in guiding the trusses being hosited, the tresses were not rigged on their lifting frame to prevent unintentional displacement.  The coefficient of friction between the trusses and the lifting frame were used to prevent unintentional displacement rather than rigged to prevent unintentional displacement.  Straps, ropes, chains, and/or clamps were not used to prevent unintentional displacement.  The truss segment point loads on the frame were not designed or intended to prevent unintentional displacement of the trusses on the lifting frame.