HANSFORD INDUSTRIES, INC. DBA VIKING STEEL

48 COR 40-8463 [¶23,138R]

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HANSFORD INDUSTRIES, INC. DBA VIKING STEEL

INJURY AND ILLNESS PREVENTION PROGRAM (IIPP) – PROCEDURES FOR IDENTIFYING AND EVALUATING WORKPLACE HAZARDS Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 3203(a)(4) (2021) – Employer did not implement procedures for identifying and evaluating workplace hazards pertaining to movement of a staircase via forklift, a general violation. Employer delegated the task of implementing its IIPP to non-supervisory employees, and its failure to implement a program of inspections by supervisors or managers, prior to assigning work to employees, constituted an ongoing, substantial deficiency that was more than an isolated, singular event.

GENERAL MOBILE EQUIPMENT AND AUXILIARIES – INDUSTRIAL TRUCKS, TRACTORS, HAULAGE VEHICLES, AND EARTHMOVING EQUIPMENT, OPERATING RULES, EXTREME CARE TAKEN WHEN TILTING LOADS Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 3650(t)(28) (2021) – Employer allowed an employee to tilt an elevated load forward when the load was not being deposited onto a storage rack or equivalent, a serious violation. The act of depositing a load is a specified exception to the rule against tilting an elevated load, not the activity being regulated. Because depositing the load is not the regulated activity, acts preparatory to it—here, removing the clamps securing the load—do not fall within the purview of the “preparatory acts” rule.

GENERAL MOBILE EQUIPMENT AND AUXILIARIES – INDUSTRIAL TRUCKS, TRACTORS, HAULAGE VEHICLES, AND EARTHMOVING EQUIPMENT, POWERED INDUSTRIAL TRUCK OPERATOR TRAINING, TRAINING PROGRAM CONTENT Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 3668(c) (2021) – Employer did not provide initial training to its forklift operators on load composition, load stability, load manipulation, and stacking and unstacking, a serious violation. Although employees completed a basic training program in safe forklift operation and took part in safety meetings on various topics, Employer’s training was not workplace-specific.

GENERAL MOBILE EQUIPMENT AND AUXILIARIES – INDUSTRIAL TRUCKS, TRACTORS, HAULAGE VEHICLES, AND EARTHMOVING EQUIPMENT, LOADS BALANCED, BRACED OR SECURED TO PREVENT TIPPING AND FALLING Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 3650(l) (2021) – Employer failed to balance, brace, or secure a load against tipping and falling during handling, a serious, accident-related violation.

GENERAL MOBILE EQUIPMENT AND AUXILIARIES, TRANSPORTATION OF EMPLOYEES AND MATERIALS – SECURING LOADS Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 3704 (2021) – Employer failed to secure a load against dangerous displacement while the clamps were being removed, a serious, accident-related violation. The Appeals Board vacated the penalty as duplicative of the penalty for violation of §3650(l).

Digest of COSHAB’s Decision After Reconsideration dated August 13, 2021, Inspection No. 1133550.

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