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WISHA Citations and
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IMCO CITED FOR ALLOWING SAFETY VIOLATIONS ON JOBSITE
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IMCO has been assessed thousands
of dollars in proposed fines and has been issued numerous citations from
The Department of Labor and Industries |
IMCO was the General Contractor on the Everett Pump Station Project in
Everett, Washington. Being the General Contractor means having
responsibilities that IMCO did not fulfill. When the Department of Labor and
Industries inspected this particular jobsite, inspectors found subcontractor
employees involved in numerous violations and exposed to several potential
safety hazards. Part of IMCO’s responsibilities were to provide and enforce
a safe working environment for all employees working onsite.
According to Department of Labor and Industries inspection reports, IMCO
failed to enforce safety regulations. IMCO and the subcontractor each
received citations from the Department of Labor and Industries. This is just
another instance where IMCO shows their disregard for safety laws and the
safety of all employees involved with their jobs.
IMCO VIOLATES FORK LIFT SAFETY REGULATIONS - MARCH, 1999
LASER agrees with the January 1999, Lift Equipment magazine article " Of
all the things you’ll handle with your vertical mast or telescopic handler
rough-terrain fork lift, nothing is as delicate as personnel.
" That being true is what makes this particular violation noteworthy. On
March, 10, 1999, IMCO General Contractors was working at the Wilkeson Sewage
Plant Project when the Dept. of Labor and Industries paid them a surprise
inspection visit. The Dept. of Labor and Industries inspector issued a
serious violation and a proposed fine for "Failure to use a specifically
built platform for elevating workers." An IMCO employee was elevated 6 feet
above a hard surface being exposed to possible injury if he were to fall. To
make matters worse, the IMCO employee was elevated while pouring water into
a pipe, creating a slippery dangerous surface to stand on. According to the
inspection report, the IMCO employee knew he was in violation. The
superintendent said that he didn’t see the employee doing it; however, there
was a window facing the employee from the job shack where if the
superintendent had checked he would have seen the violation. With the amount
of safety laws IMCO has violated in the recent past, The Critic wonders if
the superintendent checked and saw the violation occurring, would he have
stopped the violation? |
   
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