All, I have a pretty tough situation that I was wondering if anyone had dealt with before. We have an Army Corp of Engineer job for a new hangar. Pipe arrived onsite and they are telling us that we cannot install the piping from man lifts. They are adamant that they are "bound by the EM385 and the lift manufacturers requirements." In the lower sections we offered to install the pipe off of ladders and were told no to that as well. We have asked for documentation and they say that "OSHA" says that our guys can't lift over 50 lbs each because it is increases the chance of injury. We have done a bunch of Corp jobs all over the place and always install the pipe off of man lifts and ladders. I can't even imagine trying to get the pipe with some sort of duct lift or winching it piece by piece. We will take all the appropriate action, including but not limited to tying all requirements to our contract etc. but was really wondering if anybody else had been told anything like this from th e corp. Thanks for any help you can offer. I have reached out to a couple of you offline and appreciate the help, I wanted to open it up to the masses.
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