IV. VIOLATIONS OF GENERAL ORDER 128

During the past three years (1998 through 2000), CSD staff found 677 violations of GO128 requirements in 791 SCE underground and pad-mounted structures.

The following table summarizes CSD's findings:

Year	Structures Inspected	GO128 Violations Found	GO128 Violations per Structure Inspected
1998	330	309	0.94
1999	237	184	0.78
2000	224	184	0.82
Total	791	677	0.86

The majority of the GO 128 violations fall into the following categories:

_ Equipment Oil: Violations related to equipment oil such as low oil levels and leaking oil from equipment (Rule 12.2).

_ Corrosion: Violations related to equipment corrosion (Rule 12.2).

_ Warning Signs: Violations of GO128 warning sign requirements (Rule 35.3).

_ Covers: Violations of GO128 requirements related to manhole and handhole covers such as securing and ownership identification (Rules 17.8 and 32.7).

_ Securing Structures: Violations of GO128 requirements related to securing pad-mounted equipment (Rule 34.3A).

_ Guarding Live Parts: Violations of GO128 requirements related to guarding exposed live parts in pad-mounted equipment (Rule 34.3B).

_ Structure Conditions/Locations: Violations related to the accessibility of pad-mounted structures for safe operation and maintenance (Rule 34.2).

Violations from the first four categories listed above were involved in at least one accident in the past three years.