Citations issued for health and safety violations were affirmed by an administrative law judge from the independent OSHRC, upholding an earlier decision by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The violations occurred at the company’s chicken processing plant. OSHA cited the plant in May 2012 for a variety of safety and health hazards, including failure...

Following the death of an employee, 61, OSHA has cited the chemical manufacturer for 21 serious and two other-than-serious safety violations. Many of the violations involve OSHA’s Process Safety Management Standards. The company has been placed in OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program. OSHA’s investigation found the employee suffered fatal injuries on April 4, 2014, while clearing...

2nd Quarter UPDATE with 289 Shocker and Accident Photos Now over 13,750 exclusive unsafe acts/conditions and accident/injuries photos and over 1,000 ppt’s & doc’s from more than 2,776 contributors!   Many THANKS to my RENEWING “Partners in Safety“ since 2009 since 2009 since 2011 2014 Fatality Tracker Electrical 42 (2013 = 32) (2012 = 68) Forklift/Aerial 47...

 

WARNING!!!  Harsh language and using the Lord’s name in vain.  But a great visual aid of a LARGE NH3 release.

We try to stress in our PRCS Entry and Rescue courses that it is almost always easier to get into a small opening than it is to exit that same opening.  Many variables at play during an entry make this a fact, and this video does an excellent job showing how egress can be a challenge.  This video demonstrates why almost all Confined Space Standards/Codes specifically address EGRESS from the...

Just when we think we have seen it all, someone rises to the occasion to demonstrate the bottom of the barrel must be a bottomless pit!  Folks, this is so wrong I can not imagine the fire company publishing it on Youtube.  Maybe it was a citizen with a cell phone… but how could a citizen be standing that close? Check out the wind direction, look up the vapor density of propane, look...

Respondent is the owner and/or operator of a facility which stores liquid propane (“LP”) for wholesale distribution. Respondent filed an RMP for the Facility with EPA on or about October 18, 2013 that identified a covered propane process at the Facility as a Program 3 process, and that specified a quantity of 822,500 pounds of propane for this process. EPA conducted an inspection of the...

Respondent has a Program 3 covered process, as defined in 40 C.F.R. § 68.1O(d), using Anhydrous ammonia. 40 C.F.R. § 68.12(a) and (d) require that, in addition to submitting a single RMP as provided in §§ 68.150 to 68.185, facilities with a Program 3 covered process shall among other things, develop a management system as provided in § 68.15, conduct a hazard assessment as provided in §§ 68.20 to 68.42,...

This week, I began working on a process design review project for a client looking to build a facility in the state of WI. This facility will use Anhydrous Ammonia within the facility and SAFTENG was hired to ensure compliance with the design and installation/construction of their Anhydrous Ammonia process. As part of the project, SAFTENG performed a code/standard review for the state of WI. In this...