Facility has been cited for 13 safety and health violations by OSHA following an inspection at its manufacturing facility. Proposed fines total $62,000. One REPEAT safety violation, with a penalty of $22,000, involves the employer failing to reduce the pressure in a compressed air device to less than 30 pounds per square inch when using it for cleaning. The facility was previously cited for this same violation during an inspection in 2011. Nine serious safety and health violations, with $37,800 in penalties, include:
accumulation of combustible dust, tripping hazards related to poor housekeeping in the wash area, failing to provide face shields and chemical goggles for employees working with corrosive materials, failure to provide an eyewash station, not informing workers of the hazards of being exposed to noise beyond the permissible exposure limit, permitting a powered industrial truck with severely damaged tires to be utilized, allowing a worker to leave a loaded forklift unattended with the load raised, having an obstructed emergency exit, and multiple instances of inadequate machine guarding. Three other-than-serious violations, with $2,200 in penalties, involve failing to record threshold shifts on the OSHA 300 log, not having workers’ hearing retested within 30 days when there was a threshold shift and failing to properly log the number of restricted days when a worker experienced a hand contusion and another received a laceration. CLICK HERE for the news release.