The NFPA Standards Council has approved the preliminary draft of NFPA 350, and is now open for public input. With non-mandatory language, this guide incorporates the best practices that organizations and confined space professionals have utilized to comply with regulations and standards for the past 20 years since the initial publication of OSHA’s final rule…....
Work at a winery can expose individuals to life-threatening situations. When cleaning or emptying tanks, and checking the fermentation process, employees are sometimes directed to bodily enter a tank or place their head inside a tank. The air inside a tank or vat may not be sufficient to support life when gases such as carbon…...
OR-OSHA Alert: Confined Spaces – Winery Vessels Read More »
This case is one for the record books! Reading this decision is like reading a mystery novel like “Clue.” The ALJ literally eats up some of the witnesses and calls them liars. The official case files have names redacted because of the back-and-forth between the company and ex-employees. BOTTOM LINE… a company can not claim…...
OSHRC on Permit Required Confined Spaces Read More »
A paint maker died while cleaning the inside of a tank using a paint stripper that contained dichloromethane (methylene chloride). The victim was working by himself using a paint stripper to remove dried paint from the inside of a tank. The stripper contained methylene chloride, methanol, and mineral spirits. The tank was a permit-required confined…...
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OR-OSHA Delays Construction CS Standards Read More »
Confined spaces are harmless as long as they are not occupied. But when workers enter a confined space to inspect the equipment, fix leaks, or do construction work, they can encounter toxic gasses, corrosive chemicals, flammable solvents, or machines that start unexpectedly. A confined space can be difficult or impossible to exit if something goes wrong…....
Not designed to be occupied (Oregon OSHA’s guide to confined space safety) Read More »
Cal/OSHA cited Artesia-based Express Chipping, Inc. following the death of a 40-year-old worker who was chipping concrete inside a cement mixer when a 1,200-pound concrete slab struck him. Cal/OSHA cited the company for failing to identify the hazards of working within the confined space of the mixer and failing to train its workers about this…...
Cal/OSHA Cites Employers for Worker’s Death in Confined Space Read More »
I am in NO WAY associated with this company, I have spoken to NO ONE at this company and I am in NO WAY compensated for this posting. This is just a neat product that I wish I could have had access to when I was a safety manager in petrochem and I thought many…...
Confined Space Barriers (video product demo) Read More »
In September 2010, a male worker (Victim I), 48, employed by a village Department of Public Works (DPW) and a male volunteer firefighter (Victim II), 51, of the village Fire Department (FD) died after entering a sewer manhole. The manhole was located behind the firehouse. The Fire Chief and a firefighter were called in by…...
Worker & FF die in sewer manhole (NY-FACE) Read More »
This month, IN-OSHA issued citations to a “service contractor” for $99,250 after one of their service technicians entered a roll-off trash compactor to perform equipment repair, replacing a hydraulic pump and a directional valve on the Marathon Trash Compactor. The plant was NOT cited, and the contractor company involved in the repairs received ten citations, one…...
Large rolloff type TRASH COMPACTORS are PRCS’s (IN-OSHA citations) Read More »
OSHA has cited an industrial cleaning contractor for 28 serious safety violations following the death of a worker who fell from a ladder inside of a storage tank, apparently after being overcome by methylene chloride vapors at a chemical manufacturing facility. Eighteen of the serious violations involve confined space entry requirements, such as…… Membership Required...
OSHA has cited a brewery with one alleged willful and five serious violations for failing to protect workers from exposure to carbon dioxide and other workplace hazards while working in brewery cellars. The October 2012 complaint inspection of the facility has resulted in a proposed penalty totaling $88,000. The alleged willful violation was cited for…...
OSHA issues PRCS citations to Brewery ($88,000) Read More »
