Wayne Martin: OSHA Violations and Fines, Covington GA

Wayne Martin has one OSHA inspection on record in Georgia.

OSHA opened it on Apr 30, 2019 after a fatality or catastrophe, in Covington.

From that inspection OSHA issued 3 citation items: 2 serious and 1 other-than-serious.

OSHA proposed $10,798 in penalties and the amount has not been reduced.

For context, across all media and telecom employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $1,800. Wayne Martin averages $10,798 over 1 cited inspection in that time.

1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.

Wayne Martin: OSHA citation items per year, 2019 to 2019 — Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 344002456 OPENED APR 30, 2019Closed

Fatality or catastrophe · Complete · Safety · 2 employees at the site · Closed Apr 6, 2023

1520 Dixie Road, Covington, GA 30014 · Telecommunications · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Apr 29, 2019 (fatal): Employee is killed when thrown from bucket lift

At 10:00 a.m. on April 29, 2019, an employee was in the bucket of a bucket lift truck without fall protection and began to move cable lines from an old pole to the new pole. The employee let the cable line slack down into the roadway. A concrete truck came down the road and caught the cables and pinned the employee in the bucket and then threw him from the aerial lift bucket, killing him. killing him.

Citation and rule	Type	Proposed	Current	Issued	Status
Citation 1, item 1 29 CFR 1926.453(b)(2)(v) · Aerial lifts	Serious	$3,978	$3,978	Aug 23, 2019	Final
Citation 1, item 2 29 CFR 1926.454(a) · Scaffold training	Serious	$3,978	$3,978	Aug 23, 2019	Final
Citation 2, item 1 29 CFR 1904.39(a)(1) · Reporting deaths and severe injuries	Other-than-serious	$2,842	$2,842	Aug 23, 2019	Final

The rules behind these citations

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

29 CFR 1904.39 · Reporting deaths and severe injuries

29 CFR 1904.39(a)(1)

(a) Basic requirement. (1) Within eight (8) hours after the death of any employee as a result of a work-related incident, you must report the fatality to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), U.S. Department of Labor.

29 CFR 1926.453 · Aerial lifts

29 CFR 1926.453(b)(2)(v)

(v) A body belt shall be worn and a lanyard attached to the boom or basket when working from an aerial lift.

29 CFR 1926.454 · Scaffold training

29 CFR 1926.454(a)

(a) The employer shall have each employee who performs work while on a scaffold trained by a person qualified in the subject matter to recognize the hazards associated with the type of scaffold being used and to understand the procedures to control or minimize those hazards. The training shall include the following areas, as applicable:

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Wayne Martin: OSHA inspections and violations