WEST COAST ARBORISTS, INC.

46 COR 40-8126 [¶22,915] GENERAL PHYSICAL CONDITIONS AND STRUCTURES ORDERS – INJURY AND ILLNESS PREVENTION PROGRAM (IIPP), IDENTIFY PERSON(S) WITH AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR IMPLEMENTING Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 3203(a)(1) (2019) – Employer’s IIPP identified safety and training teams, committees, and a safety trainer, among others, as having responsibility for implementing the IIPP, but failed to identify individual members of those teams and committees by name or other reasonably specific identifier. GENERAL PLANT EQUIPMENT AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS – TREE WORK, MAINTENANCE OR REMOVAL, MOBILE EQUIPMENT, BRUSH CHIPPERS, ROTARY DRUM OR DISK-TYPE BRUSH CHIPPERS FED FROM SIDE OF CENTERLINE Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 3424(c)(7) (2019) – The Division established that an employee fed a brush chipper while crossing the centerline, a serious violation. GENERAL PLANT EQUIPMENT AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS – TREE WORK, MAINTENANCE OR REMOVAL, MOBILE EQUIPMENT, BRUSH CHIPPERS, BODY PARTS NEVER PLACED ON FEED TABLE WHILE BRUSH CHIPPER IN OPERATION OR ROTOR TURNING Cal. Code Regs, tit. 8, § 3424(c)(8) (2019) – The Division established that an employee placed his hands and other body parts on the feed table when a brush chipper was in operation or the rotor was turning, a serious violation. Summary of COSHAB-ALJ’s Decision dated February 11, 2019, Inspection No. 1180192 (Anaheim, CA).Read More...