SMUD (2)

By: Rick Waldinger

37 COR 40-6485 [¶ 21,720]

HIGH VOLTAGE - MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT
Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 2940.7(d)(1)(A) (2010) - The controls for a pole guide on a digger derrick truck were left unattended while the pole guide tongs were clamped around a broken power pole that was suspended by the conductors from electrical lines and partially supported by the pole guide during a pole repair operation, in violation of the safety order. 

CRANES - OVERHEAD LOADS
Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 5002 (2010) - In order to control the job and avoid exposure of employees to the hazard of the overhead load, the grabbers of a digger derrick truck were used to stabilize and partially support a broken pole while the crew attempted to attach a sling to the pole. The truck was not being used as a crane to suspend, move, or pass the load directly over employees or their work space. The Division failed to establish a violation. 

CRANES - HANDLING LOADS
Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 4999(b)(1) (2010) - Employees working with a digger derrick rig and bucket truck to replace a power pole had not attached the broken pole to the hook or placed a sling around any part of the pole in order to rig and lift the pole. The Division failed to establish a violation.

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