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What's wrong with this picture?
The ladder arrangement—metal ladders stacked on a bucket—in this photo would actually be considered a "scaffold," i.e., a temporary elevated platform and supporting structure used to support workers, by OSHA (under Sec. 1910.21(f)(27)). And according to OSHA rules (Sec. 1910.28(a)(2)), scaffold footing or anchorage must be "sound, rigid and capable of carrying the maximum intended load without settling or displacement" (emphasis added).
Moral: Don't use buckets or other unstable objects like barrels, boxes, bricks or concrete blocks to support scaffolds. Even more to the […]
