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
What are OSHA inspectors targeting now? The agency has released its top 10 violations for fiscal year 2011.
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Tags: fall protection, hazard communication, most frequently cited OSHA violations, respiratory protection, scaffolding, top 10
Even without a combustible dust standard, OSHA can fine companies for failing to provide appropriate fire and explosion protection from combustible dust.
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Tags: combustible dust, fire and explosion, hearing conservation program, permissible exposure limits, respirators
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
A worker at a grocery store fell 11 feet onto a concrete floor and suffered broken bones and head trauma. Instead of calling 911, store management lifted the worker into a wheelchair and pushed him to a dock to wait for a relative to take him to the hospital.
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Tags: broken bones, emergency services, employee fall, General Duty Clause, head trauma, Market Basket, repeat citation
OSHA has ordered a farmer-owned cooperative to increase safety training for grain bin employees and pay a $550,000 fine.
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Tags: farm coop, OSHA settlement, rescue drills, safety consultant, Safety training, trapped in soybeans
Two co-owned trailer manufacturing companies in Texas face a combined $949,800 in OSHA fines following an investigation that was prompted by employee complaints.
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Tags: days away from work, employee complaints, eye injuries, hearing test, toxic fumes
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
Was the death of a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando due to a benign act by a killer whale or because of willful disregard for employee safety? That question is being asked in the appeal of an OSHA fine.
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Tags: Dawn Brancheau, fatal whale attack, General Duty Clause, SeaWorld, Tilikum
A supermarket is facing OSHA fines after an inspection found night shift employees were locked in and not allowed to leave the building without the employer’s permission.
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Tags: employees locked in, locked exits, Mermaid Meat Co., obstructed exits, supermarket, Triangle Shirtwaist fire
A new OSHA directive outlines the types of businesses and the reasons why inspectors will review a company’s workplace violence prevention efforts.
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Tags: General Duty Clause, healthcare, high-crime areas, OSHA directive, retail, working alone, workplace violence
Bostik, Inc., a manufacturer of adhesives, faces $917,000 in OSHA fines for 50 citations following the agency’s investigation into a March 13, 2011, explosion that injured four workers at the company’s Middleton, MA, plant.
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Tags: acetone, Bostik Inc., explosion, OSHA fine, process safety management
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
A Colorado grain elevator company is scheduled to plead guilty and be sentenced Aug. 5 in connection with the death of a 17-year-old worker who was buried alive in a grain bin in 2009.
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Tags: buried alive in grain, criminal charges, emergency action plan, grain elevator, Safety training
Lowe’s has agreed to pay OSHA $90,000 to settle violations involving employee injury records at two locations.
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Tags: injury records, Lowe's, medical records
OSHA is carrying through with its new policy to treat similar violations at different facilities owned by the same company as repeat violations.
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Tags: compressed gas cylinders, repeat citations, stepladder, struck-by, Walgreens
A contractor with a history of violating workplace safety standards faces a total of $354,000 in new fines from OSHA in connection with trenching hazards at two work sites.
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Tags: contractor, ladder, repeat violation, Severe Violator Enforcement Program, shoring, trench collapse, trenching hazards, willful violation
Indiana OSHA has agreed to cut almost in half proposed fines to the University of Notre Dame in connection with the death of a student who was filming a football practice last fall. The university has agreed to take a number of steps as part of the settlement.
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Tags: IOSHA, Notre Dame, scissor lift, settlement agreement, student death
A company and its owner have agreed not to employ people to work with explosives to settle a $1.2 million OSHA fine in connection with an explosion that killed two workers.
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Tags: Black mag, egregious violation, explosion, killed two workers, surrendered license
Establishing an open-door policy for employees to bring safety problems to management’s attention can be a real cost-saver: In this case, it might have saved thousands of dollars in OSHA fines.
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Tags: bloodborne pathogens, confined spaces, respiratory program, training, worker complaint
Once again, OSHA has proposed a million-dollar fine for an employer with a history of violations.
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Tags: amputation, fall hazards, Severe Violator Enforcement Program
Earlier this year, an elephant killed an animal trainer at the Knoxville Zoo in Tennessee. Now the zoo faces fines from that state’s safety agency (TOSHA).
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Tags: elephant killed trainer, General Duty Clause, Knoxville Zoo, TOSHA
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
Sure, OSHA hasn’t yet enacted its proposal to include an ergonomic check box on its injury logs. But that doesn’t mean companies don’t have to report these injuries.
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Tags: ergonomic injury, musculoskeletal disorder, OSHA 300 log, tennis elbow
When OSHA wants to make a statement with a large fine, it can ratchet up the amount by multiplying violations by the number of employees. Such is the case in a recent fine involving a Midwest facility.
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Tags: asbestos, cancer, protective clothing, respirators, training, 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
Safety inspectors say a lack of training and safety leadership on a job site contributed to the death of a worker.
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Tags: construction project, safety leadership, Safety training, struck-by
An attempt to prevent OSHA from obtaining records from a company’s workers’ comp insurance carrier has failed.
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Tags: deaths of two teenage workers, grain elevator, Haasbach LLC, OSHA subpoena, Workers' comp
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
A judge has ruled that Wal-Mart should pay a $7,000 fine in connection with the trampling death of one of its employees. But this case may not be over yet.
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Tags: crowd control, General Duty Clause, Wal-Mart trampling death
An administrative law judge with the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission has upheld fines against an Ohio company. An inspection revealed several employees had symptoms of a potentially fatal respiratory disease after sweeping up pigeon droppings.
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Tags: fatal respiratory disease, histoplasmosis, Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, pigeon droppings, worker struck in head
A contracting company faces $159,600 in OSHA fines following the death of one employee and the hospitalization of another.
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Tags: excavation, personal protective equipment, trench collapse
The University of Notre Dame is responsible for the death of a student-worker while he was filming football practice on a scissor lift in high winds, according to a report from Indiana OSHA (IOSHA).
Tags: high winds, IOSHA, Notre Dame, scissor lift, student worker
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