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Reporting Period: October 2024 – September 2025
Executive Summary
During the FY 2025 reporting period, OSHA issued 309 citations across 112 inspections related to the Permit-Required Confined Space standard (1910.146). Total penalties for this period reached $2,174,234. The data reveal a heavy concentration of enforcement in the manufacturing sector, though the highest average penalties per citation...
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Period: October 2024 – September 2025
Executive Summary
Between October 2024 and September 2025, OSHA issued 2,550 citations for Lockout/Tagout (LOTO) violations across all industries. These citations resulted from 1,427 inspections and carried a total penalty weight of $16,446,984.
The data indicates that the manufacturing sector remains the primary focus of LOTO enforcement, accounting for...
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Reporting Period: October 2024 – September 2025
Executive Summary
During the specified period, Federal OSHA issued 251 citations across 65 inspections, resulting in $1,651,334 in penalties. The manufacturing sector—specifically Chemical and Food manufacturing—accounts for the vast majority of enforcement activity.
Top Industries by Penalty Amount
While citation counts indicate frequency, the...
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An HSE investigation found clear failings leading to two (2) separate incidents of exposure to caustic soda at a manufacturer.
In 2019, an employee lost part of their leg after stepping into a puddle of caustic soda
In 2022, a second worker needed skin grafts after suffering burns while decanting caustic soda
The chemical manufacturing company has been fined £3.8 million ($5.1 million in USD)...
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I am pretty confident in my position, but my friend and one hell of a safety pro has me second-guessing myself. So I thought this would be a good scenario to debate amongst the SAFTENG members. I will not bias the discussion with my position, but I will add mine after a dozen or so of you have stated yours. You can make your comments below “anonymously.”
Scenario:
I have a tank. Tank...
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This week I was in that “state up north”. It is how Ohio State fans refer to the great state of Michigan. If you did not know, the two programs are crazy rivalries in all sports. While I was conducting a Flammable Liquids Process Engineering/Code Design Review, I came across a greater risk… three (3) 1,000-gallon LPG tanks within 15′ of the flammable liquid tank.
As I...
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I asked Gemini Plus about the reaction of M200A (M200A, a proprietary amine-based solvent often associated with gas sweetening or industrial cleaning) and Nitric Acid, as has been reported in the media as the two (2) chemicals involved in yesterday’s tragic event in WV. It has been reported that H2S was involved; yet, reading this AI analysis, I do not see how H2S was generated by this reaction,...
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This tragedy is a sad example of why OSHA says…
Entry … is considered to have occurred as soon as any part of the entrant's body breaks the plane of an opening into the space.
I am not sold on MSHA’s Root Cause Analysis, but we can all learn a lot from this tragedy and apply it to our non-mining workplaces!
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With all the noise in safety these days, I find it refreshing to just focus on the fundamentals and have management set targets on these fundamentals. For example, take a random safety walk on Monday and focus on Container Labeling. Count all the containers evaluated, count all the containers that were NOT labeled in any way, and count all the containers that were labeled incorrectly. Devise a ratio...
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I like to tell clients that NFPA has done what OSHA failed to do… make Combustible Dust a PSM-covered process. Well, not exactly, but NFPA 660 has certainly advanced how we manage the risks associated with Combustible Dusts. The new (2026) NFPA 660 has the following SMS elements:
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Once again, auditing pays off! No way in heck, my audits should be the method to identify QA failures on a piping installation, but it seems the past 10 years or so, it’s happening more and more. This event was a significant failure on the General Contractor and the Sub-Contractor, who was doing the actual welding. This is the corrective action plan I offered to the client for recovering from...
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Several reports released this week by safety authorities (including ABSA and the CSB) have highlighted “latent” welding failures in pressure systems:
Amine Stress Corrosion Cracking: A report finalized this week documented a loss of containment in a piping system in which a circumferential weld developed a through-wall crack.
Pressure Transmitter Leak: A separate industrial alert...
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