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Volt Power, LLC: OSHA inspections and violations

Huntsville, Alabama · Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction · NAICS 237130

1inspections
1citation items
$9,054current penalties
May 10, 2018last inspection

OSHA has inspected Volt Power, LLC once in Alabama.

The inspection began on May 10, 2018 on a referral, in Huntsville.

That inspection ended with 1 citation item: 1 serious.

Penalties were first proposed at $12,934 and now stand at $9,054, 30% lower after settlements or reviews.

How that compares: the median penalty per cited inspection for construction employers since 2015 is $3,080, and Volt Power, LLC averages $9,054 (1 cited inspection).

It reported 1 severe injury to OSHA since 2015.

Volt Power, LLC: OSHA citation items per year, 2018 to 2018
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 343156089 OPENED MAY 10, 2018Closed

Referral · Partial · Safety · 400 employees at the site · Closed Oct 23, 2018

1503 Chandler Road, Huntsville, AL 35801 · Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on May 2, 2018: Three employees are shocked and burned from electrical conta

At 6:45 p.m. on May 2, 2018, Employees #1, #2, and #3, employed by a utility services company, were loading equipment into a truck at a multifamily residential building project. The truck became energized, and the three employees all sustained electric shocks and burns.

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.269(p)(4)(i) · Electric power generation, transmission, and distribution
Serious$12,934$9,054Aug 2, 2018Final

Severe injury reports

Employers must report any work-related amputation, in-patient hospitalization or loss of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours. 1 report on file.

May 2, 2018, Huntsville: Hospitalization · electrical burns, unspecified · nonclassifiable

Three employees were removing sand bags after installing a steel pole when a digger truck boom contacted electrical wiring (phases), exposing them to an electrical current that burned them. Two employees were hospitalized.

The rules behind these citations

Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.

29 CFR 1910.269 · Electric power generation, transmission, and distribution

29 CFR 1910.269(p)(4)(i)

(4) Operations near energized lines or equipment. (i) Mechanical equipment shall be operated so that the minimum approach distances, established by the employer under paragraph (l)(3)(i) of this section, are maintained from exposed energized lines and equipment. However, the insulated portion of an aerial lift operated by a qualified employee in the lift is exempt from this requirement if the applicable minimum approach distance is maintained between the uninsulated portions of the aerial lift and exposed objects having a different electrical potential.

Other power and communication line and related structures construction employers in Alabama

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