1. Not enforcing social distancing of 6 ft. - force multiple crew to work together. This includes supervisors. 2. Universal face coverings are not provided by company nor enforced. 3 guys per bucket truck, 2 - 4 per pickup truck. Office personnel do not wear masks. 3.
Does not and has refused to provide hand sanitizer or other means to wash hands in the field. 4. Does not conduct temperature/health checks daily and allows individuals to work sick, as they do not provide sick leave. 5. Employees feel they have to ignore COVID safety measures out of fear of retaliation from main office official. Even after requests have been made for safer working conditions, such as not working around other crews in same worksite and having employees randomly placed on different trucks, though the week greatly increasing the risk of exposure. 6. Equipment inspections are not properly done and equipment that is unsafe to operate is forced on employees. Equipment inspection is completely skipped and inspection is done by an individual whom only writes the vin down and slaps sticker of inspection on equipment, without ever actually looking the equipment over. That includes testing equipment for safe use around power lines. 7. Failure to provide proper safety supplies such as bloodborne disease kits, first aid kit to all trucks. Failure to provide proper eye protection such as untinted safety glasses for use at night, etc. Failure to provide proper hearing protection to all crews. They sometimes give out one use ear plugs and force employees to reuse them daily.
Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2020-12-21
Source: Osha.gov | Receipt Date: 2020-12-21
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