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A food additive manufacturer’s failure to handle hazardous materials and respond properly to an emergency led to an explosion that injured four workers, including two contractors who scaled an 8-foot security fence topped with triple-strand barbed wire to escape the fireball. An OSHA investigation found the business violated process safety management procedures for the handling of hazardous...
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July 7, 2016 UPDATE – Company is Contesting all citations
OSHA has issued nine serious safety violations to a food industry provider of cold storage warehousing and logistical services. A January 2016 complaint investigation found the company violated OSHA’s process safety management procedures for using ammonia in its refrigeration warehouse facility. An investigation by the agency’s...
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2016 Fatality Tracker
Electrical
11
(2015 = 38)
(2014 = 55)
(2013 = 32)
(2012 = 68)
Forklift/Aerial
20
(2015 = 48)
(2014 = 60)
(2013 = 62)
(2012 = 52)
Mining*
7
(2015 = 21)
(2014 = 401)
(2013 = 87*)
(2012 = 92*)
*ONLY USA
Explosions
55*
(2015 = 135)
(2014 = 157)
(2013 = 194)
(2012 = 241)
*24 were in the Pemex explosion
Cranes
39*
(2015 = 28)
(2014 = 20)
(2013...
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The Sequence of Events Model
This is a simple, linear cause and effect model where accidents are seen as the natural culmination of a series of events or circumstances that occur in a specific and recognizable order. A chain often represents the model with a weak link or a series of falling dominos. This model prevents accidents by fixing or eliminating the weak link, removing a domino, or placing...
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Respondent owned and operated the a chemical manufacturing facility. On September 8-11, 2014, EPA Region 6 conducted an unannounced, onsite CAA 40 C.F.R. Part 68 and Section 112(r) Partial Compliance Evaluation of the Facility. The faility’s RMP lists three covered processes subject to Program 3 requirements. The regulated flammable substances that are held above the threshold quantities identified...
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Respondent owns a Utilities Plant that maintains the support of steam, refrigeration, compressed air, cooling and process water; wastewater treatment, electricity, and natural gas for a chemical manufacturing complex. The Utilities Plant includes methanol storage and ammonia storage tank operations and distribution systems. Respondent produces, processes, stores, or handles up to a maximum of...
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Respondent owns and operates a global technology and specialty materials company operating in the production of vinyl acetate. Respondent operates the Facility in part to produce vinyl acetate in a reactor process. Vinyl acetate is identified at 40 C.F.R. Part 68.130 as a toxic regulated substance with a threshold quantity of 15,000 pounds. Respondent produces, stores, or handles vinyl acetate...
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KMCL has noted that OSHA has been very aggressive in its enforcement efforts and in seeking large penalties over the last several months. As described below, the initiatives the agency has recently announced signal that this intensity will continue to ratchet up over the coming months and likely beyond. As a result, employers should consider evaluating whether they are prepared for an OSHA...
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is amending its hazard categories in the regulations (40 CFR part 370) for reporting under Sections 311 and 312 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) due to the changes in the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Hazard Communication Standard (HCS). OSHA’s HCS was revised in 2012 to conform to the United...
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Respondent owned and operated a chemical plant where regulated substances and other extremely hazardous substances are produced, processed, stored, and handled, and from which an accidental release could occur. Within the Facility, at the time of the incidents described herein, Respondent used and produced butadiene, chlorine, pentane, sodium hydroxide, hydrochloric acid, toluene, 1 ,4-dichloro-2-butene,...
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