October 10, 2012 by Fred Hosier
A food manufacturer in Massachusetts has agreed to pay $540,000 in OSHA fines in connection with a fatality. An employee was crushed to death in a machine used to make hummus.
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Tags: crushed to death in machine, lockout/tagout, Severe Violator Enforcement Program, Tribe Mediterranean Foods
October 8, 2012 by Fred Hosier
Distracted driving; bicycle helmets; a stiff fine for lockout/tagout hazards; injuries to nonprofit volunteers and workers’ comp; and we’ve seen NFL replacement refs, how about replacement workers’ comp magistrates? It’s all in this week’s Safety News Summary. Click “more” to read on.
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Tags: bicycle helmets, distracted driving, lockout/tagout, replacement refs
October 4, 2012 by Fred Hosier
An employee was electrocuted while working to restore power to a pumping station. OSHA heard about the fatality and investigated.
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Tags: electrocution, energized electrical parts, lockout/tagout, maintenance
June 20, 2012 by Fred Hosier
Saying the employer knew workers had to be trained on lockout/tagout, OSHA has issued $702,300 in fines against a food manufacturer in connection with the death of an employee who was crushed to death in a machine used to make hummus.
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Tags: egregious willful OSHA citations, lockout/tagout, Tribe Mediterranean Foods, worker crushed to death
June 1, 2012 by Fred Hosier
“We trust the Commission will act before the decade is out,” the U.S. District Court wrote earlier this year regarding OSHA fines that date back to 1993. Action has been taken, and the result could affect how much OSHA can charge for violations.
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Tags: Dayton Tire, lockout/tagout, OSHRC, willful violation
March 9, 2012 by Fred Hosier
A federal court says because a company made some effort to comply with an OSHA standard, safety violations weren’t willful. That will reduce the OSHA fines, which were originally almost $7.5 million, by at least 90%.
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Tags: Dayton Tire, lockout/tagout, OSHRC, willful violation
March 7, 2012 by Fred Hosier
This company got snared in OSHA’s Site-Specific Targeting (SST) program which focuses on employers with injury rates that are higher than their industry’s national average.
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Tags: high injury rate, lockout/tagout, Site-Specific Targeting program
November 8, 2011 by Fred Hosier
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
October 4, 2011 by Fred Hosier
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
August 29, 2011 by Fred Hosier
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
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