The list of hazards in this photo includes, but is not limited to:
- Lack of gloves;
- Fueling without a funnel; and
- Fueling over turfgrass.
What did we miss? We invite you—as employers and workers in the landscape industry—to share your expertise. Email your responses toLM Editor Marisa Palmieri (mpalmieri@northcoastmedia.net). We’ll publish your responses with the online version of this story.
Reader submissions:
- The gas can is not marked as regular gas or mixed gasoline.
Tom Kavanagh
Cottage Gardens
Hermitage, Pa. - The gas container is not OSHA approved.
James Brabble - Technically, if this gas can goes on any commercial sites our customers require OSHA-approved metal cans. If you continue to use the plastic cans they should be labeled. The photo shows gasoline and it should be 2-cycle gas. Some new employee would put straight gas in the can and put in the weed eater and blow up the engine.
David Fleming
General Manager
Greenleaf Landscapes
Marietta, Ohio
