Solid Platforms, Inc: OSHA inspections and violations

Incident on Nov 23, 1994 (fatal): Employee killed in fall from unsecured guardrail

Employee #1 was working with another insulator on opposite sides of a tank, inst alling metal straps to secure the metal sheets that covered the insulation aroun d the tank. His work area consisted of a 51 in. wide metal deck that was station ed 13 ft 4 in. high and between the tank and the guardrails of a systems type sc affold. For reasons unknown, when the employee either fell or leaned against the scaffold's top guardrail, it disengaged, allowing one end of the top guardrail to move away from the platform and the employee to fall to the concrete surface. Employee #1 was hospitalized with head and neck injuries on November 23, 1994, and died on December 8, 1994.

Incident on Apr 14, 1992: Employee hospitalized after fall from scaffold

Employee #1 was dismantling a scaffold knee-out, 4 ft wide by 10 ft long, consis ting of a metal platform of four 9 in. wide metal planks. Having lowered three o f the planks to the ground, Employee #1 then stood on a 10 ft long crossbar to l ower the fourth one. While he was standing on the bar and holding onto another b ar with one hand, approximately 42 in. above the 15 ft elevation, the bar that h e was holding onto swung outward, causing him to fall 15 ft to the concrete. He was hospitalized.