COSTCO WHOLESALE CORPORATION

45 COR 40-8048 [¶22,869] REPORTING WORK-CONNECTED INJURIES – REPORTING WORK-CONNECTED FATALITIES AND SERIOUS INJURIES Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 342(a) (2018) – Employer waited more than 24 hours before it reported an employee’s serious injury to the Division, despite having enough information to warrant making a timely report. The Division established a violation. GENERAL PHYSICAL CONDITIONS AND STRUCTURES, ACCESS, WORK SPACE, AND WORK AREAS – PORTABLE LADDERS, CARE, USE, INSPECTION AND MAINTENANCE OF LADDERS, LADDER PLACEMENT Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 3276(e)(14) (2018) – Employer violated the safety order by allowing an employee to use a metal A-frame ladder in front of a closed door where it was exposed to the hazard of displacement. GENERAL PHYSICAL CONDITIONS AND STRUCTURES, ACCESS, WORK SPACE, AND WORK AREAS – PORTABLE LADDERS, CARE, USE, INSPECTION AND MAINTENANCE OF LADDERS, CLIMBING AND WORKING ON LADDERS Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 3276(e)(15)(A) (2018) – Employer violated the safety order by failing to ensure that an employee working on a ladder did not overreach from the middle of the rung he was standing on. Summary of COSHAB-ALJ’s Decision dated September 25, 2018, Inspection No. 1173199 (Issaquah, WA).Read More...

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