OSHA has fined a Rochester, NY, recycling company in connection with the June death of an employee inside a compactor.
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Tags: compactor, crushed to death, lockout/tagout, recycling, repeat violations
OSHA is increasing the amounts some companies pay for fines by extending its repeat violation policy to more situations. Now, the same violation at a different location within five years counts as “repeat.”
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Tags: maintenance, repeat violation, unintended startup of machinery
Following the death of a worker inside a machine used to sort recyclables, OSHA has fined a Marietta, OH, company $186,300 for a total of 21 violations.
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Tags: lockout/tagout, Marietta Industrial Enterprises, recycling machine, Severe Violator Enforcement Program
Sure, it will take more time for a worker to completely lock out a machine before clearing a jam. But those extra moments could make the difference between life and death, as this story shows.
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Tags: lockout/tagout, machine jam, tobacco
When a fatality or serious injury occurs at a nearby business in your industry, expect OSHA to pay a visit to look for similar hazards.
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Tags: immigrant, machine guarding, Spanish, tortilla manufacturer
Lack of machine guarding can prove fatal in all sorts of businesses.
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Tags: bowling, machine guarding, personal fall arrest system
Earlier this year, a review panel addressed OSHA’s ability to issue fines for not having injury records that date back from more than the current year. Now OSHA has used its new authority to level an additional $40,000 in fines to one company.
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Tags: amputations, OSHRC, Recordkeeping, willful violation
A company recently was fined $563,000 for 10 OSHA violations. How did a relatively small number of fines add up to that large amount?
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Tags: fall, lockout/tagout, manufacturer, repeat violations, willful violations
Do you work at a company that has more than one facility? It might pay to keep track of OSHA inspections at your company’s other facilities. Those other inspections can have an impact on you.
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Tags: electrical, exit doors, failure to train workers, lockout/tagout, machine guarding, Parker Hannifin, repeat citations
A Midwest green energy company now knows that getting caught in OSHA’s Severe Violators Enforcement Program (SVEP) results in huge fines.
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Tags: egregious violation, lockout/tagout, Outland Renewable Resources, Severe Violators Enforcement Program, willful violation
Cal-OSHA will investigate the death of a worker who fell into a meat grinder. The company paid a fine seven years ago for another incident involving a similar machine.
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Tags: cleaning, lock out, meat grinder
“I’ll just be a moment.” “No one would throw the switch while I’m working on the machine.” This workplace fatality shows there’s never a good reason not to lock out equipment while maintenance is being performed.
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Tags: excuses, lockout/tagout, OSHA investigation
OSHA is looking into the case of a worker in Brooklyn, NY, who was crushed to death inside a mixer. Meanwhile, the state has shut down the business.
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Tags: crushed to death, lock out, pulled into machine, tortilla-mixing machine
A company faces OSHA fines in connection with the death of a cameraman at a motocross event.
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Tags: fall from lift, lockout, Lucas Oil Production Studios, scissor lift, Thunder Valley Motocross
Companies that OSHA places in its Severe Violator Enforcement Program (SVEP) can count on multiple safety inspections with accompanying large fines for infractions.
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Tags: dust, fall protection, follow-up inspections, lockout, Severe Violator Enforcement Program
This fatality shows why it’s important for employees to follow lockout rules to the letter every time. Just one slip-up is enough to cost an employee’s life.
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Tags: employee electrocuted, lockout
When investigations into workplace deaths find particularly egregious safety failures, the penalties won’t stop with fines from OSHA. These cases can be forwarded to prosecutors for criminal charges. That’s what happened in this California fatality.
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Tags: death of pregnant employee, involuntary manslaughter, jail time
Imagine this: Nine workers at one company suffer various types of amputations, ranging from part of a finger to most of an arm, yet the company has avoided paying large fines in many of the cases.
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Tags: amputations, Bimbo Bakeries, Cal/OSHA, large fines
OSHA is going postal. No, not like that.
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Tags: inspections, lockout/tagout, OSHA, OSHA fines, PPE
Federal mining safety officials will look into a worker fatality at a lime plant in Arkansas.
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Tags: crushed, mining safety, vacuum
Here’s a story you can share with employees and supervisors about why lockout/tagout is so important:
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Following a worker’s death and millions in OSHA fines, some shareholders filed a lawsuit against Cintas Corp. alleging the board has failed to ensure the company complied with safety regulations. Now the company has settled the lawsuit.
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Tags: Cintas, lock out, shareholder lawsuit, unguarded machines, worker's death
A seafood processing plant faces $66,800 in OSHA fines after a worker was crushed to death in an ice machine.
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Tags: crushed in ice machine, lock out, power down
Have you ever fired someone for violating a company safety rule? In this case, a company did just that and then found itself in court on a charge of racial discrimination.
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Tags: lockout/tagout, racial discrimination, safety violation
Have you ever fired someone for violating a company safety rule? In this case, a company did just that and then found itself in court on a charge of racial discrimination.
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Tags: fired for safety violation, Georgia-Pacific, racial discrimination
When it’s time to clean or perform maintenance on machinery, are your workers sure they know the proper lockout/tagout procedures to prevent serious injury? How about your newest workers?
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Tags: hand caught in meat grinder, lockout/tagout, maintenance on machinery
When companies fail to correct violations found during inspections, they can expect OSHA to hit them with heavy fines after a re-inspection.
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Tags: audiograms, combustible dust, failure to correct violations, heavy fines, re-inspection
Laundry company Cintas Corp. has reached a settlement with OSHA to resolve six safety-related cases, including one that resulted in a worker fatality.
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Tags: Cintas, Fatality, lockout/tagout, OSHA fine, settlement
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