Permit Required Confined Spaces

As it usually goes, the vast majority of challenges and questions I have received thus far from yesterdays ASSP2019! presentation center around the most controversial characteristic of 1910.146… 4. Contains any other recognized serious safety or health hazard I could have spent a half day talking on this single characteristic, but I had only 35…...

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OSHA defines entry as: “Entry” means the action by which a person passes through an opening into a permit-required confined space. Entry includes ensuing work activities in that space and is considered to have occurred as soon as any part of the entrant’s body breaks the plane of an opening into the space. Here is…...

At approximately 2:30 p.m. on April 1, 2010, Employee #1, Employee #2 (leadman) and Employee #3 were preparing product involving the use of fermented molasses as one of the ingredients. The workers were having problems moving the molasses from tank #2 to tank #1. According to the employer, he told Employee #2 via telephone, to…...

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OSHA has cited an asphalt paving contractor after an employee suffered fatal injuries after being pulled into an unguarded slat/drag conveyor at the company’s North Platte, Nebraska, asphalt plant. OSHA proposed penalties totaling $89,032.  OSHA cited the company for seven serious violations of machine guarding, lockout/tagout and permit-required confined space standards, including failing to develop a…...

This is one type of situation where (c)(5) could be a means to enter a PRCS and OSHA agreed and issued some (c)(5) citations. At 8:15 p.m. on May 25, 2018, Employee #1 was power washing the outside of the semi-truck tanker trailer. The employee entered the tanker trailer to wash the inside and was…...

At 2:30 p.m. on March 10, 2018, Employee #1 was using an aerial lift to gain access to an emergency access panel on a dust collection silo that was 25 feet above the ground. From the aerial lift, Employee #1 was using a two-inch water hose to spray water into the silo to remove the…...