June 22, 2016

OSHA issues willful, serious citations for MillerCoors Fort Worth brewery

Employer name: MillerCoors Fort Worth brewery

Inspection site: 7001 South Freeway, Fort Worth, Texas 76134

Citations issued: June 17, 2016

June 22, 2016

Towing parts manufacturer continues to expose workers to machine, electrical hazards at Mentor manufacturing facility

Employer name: Trailer Component Manufacturing Inc., operating as Buyers Product Company
Mentor, Ohio

Citations issued: June 20, 2016

Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued three repeated and eight serious violations to Trailer Components Manufacturing, which operates as Buyers Product Company. 

June 21, 2016

OSHA fines grain elevator company for willfully, repeatedly exposing workers to potentially fatal grain engulfment hazards

Employer name: High Country Elevators Inc.

Worksites: 62784 US-491, Dove Creek, CO 81324

Citations issued: June 10, 2016

June 21, 2016

OSHA finds cold storage company lacked proper procedures for use of potentially dangerous ammonia

Employer name: Americold Logistics
Carthage, Missouri

Citations received: June 16, 2016

Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration

June 21, 2016

Union City contractor allowed dangerous hazards that led to worker’s fatal fall while removing siding at Bayonne home

Employer name: Bolivar Enterprises LLC, 902 Central Ave., Union City, New Jersey

Citations issued: On June 3, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations for nine serious violations.

June 21, 2016

Employees exposed to widespread, potentially fatal electrical, fall hazards at Williamsburg building site

Employer name: Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov, 638 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, New York, constructing a six-story school and office building at 642 Bedford St. in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.

Citations issued: On June 3, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov for 21 serious violations of workplace safety standards.

June 21, 2016

OSHA finds absence of proper safety guards led two workers to suffer amputation injuries at Piedmont food manufacturer

PIEDMONT, Mo. ‒ Twice in less than a month, two workers at an Ajinomoto Windsor Inc. facility suffered amputation injuries because their employer failed to install adequate safety guards to keep operator’s hands out of machine danger zones, inspectors with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found. The agency cited the food manufacturer for similar machine hazards at the Piedmont facility in 2013.

June 21, 2016

Non-GMO food additive manufacturer faces $180K in fines after explosion, fire injures 4 workers at Ohio facility

NEWARK, Ohio – A Newark 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.

June 20, 2016

OSHA cites Wegmans Food Market’s Rochester bakery for repeat safety violations after operating conveyor injures employee’s arm

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A simple task for an employee at Wegmans Food Market Inc.’s commercial bakery in Rochester instead resulted in a needless and severe injury. As the worker cleaned an operating conveyor belt and roller on Dec. 16, 2015, her hand was caught between the belt and the roller and the machine pulled it in. She sustained broken bones in her hand and arm.

June 20, 2016

Chautauqua County manufacturer fails to correct fall hazard, allows recurring electrical hazard; faces OSHA fines of $87K

Employer name: Jamestown MVP LLC, 2061 Allen Street, Falconer, New York 14733.

Doing business as MVP Plastics, the company manufactures disposable plates and bowls.

Citations issued: On June 13, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued one citation for failure to abate a previously cited violation, and one citation for a repeat violation.

June 20, 2016

Follow-up OSHA inspection finds workplace safety problems persist at Georgia pipe fabricator; nearly $76K in fines proposed

Employer name: U.S. Pipe Fabrication LLC

Inspection site: 1101 Industrial Blvd., Gainesville, Georgia 30504

Citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations to U.S. Pipe on June 6 for three repeated, three serious and one other-than-serious safety and health violations.

June 16, 2016

OSHA reminds Phoenix-area employers to protect workers from heat illness

PHOENIX – With sweltering temperatures impacting Phoenix this week, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is reminding employers to protect their workers from heat illness.

June 15, 2016

OSHA follow-up inspection finds Ohio sign manufacturer continues to expose workers to respiratory, chemical hazards

LIMA, Ohio – For the third time in 10 years, federal safety and health inspectors found employees at a Lima custom sign manufacturing company exposed to respiratory, chemical and paint hazards.

June 15, 2016

OSHA attributes worker fatality, injury at Kroger distribution center to a failure to inspect, recognize visible hazards

FOREST PARK, Ga. – A 27-year-old laborer’s life ended suddenly because his employer failed to have a competent person inspect the rail supporting a scaffold system nearly 80 feet off the ground for visible defects, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found. 

June 15, 2016

OSHA reminds Texas employers to protect workers from heat illness

DALLAS – With sweltering temperatures baking Texas this week, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration reminds employers to protect their workers from heat illness.

June 14, 2016

Worker loses four-fingers after hand caught in unguarded machine at Baldwin, Illinois, power generation plant

BALDWIN, Ill. – A 46-year-old worker suffered the amputation of four fingers on his right hand when a feed machine cycled as he reached inside an access door to assist another employee with maintenance. Federal safety inspectors found his employer, Dynegy Midwest Generation LLC, failed to power down the machinery prior to employees servicing the machine.

June 14, 2016

Five companies face OSHA violations, $115K in fines after federal inspectors observe multiple safety hazards at Lincoln construction site

LINCOLN, Neb. ‒ The deadly fact is this: nearly 40 percent of all deaths in the construction industry are the result of a preventable fall. Yet, some employers continue to ignore the dangers and put their workers at risk of a debilitating or fatal fall.

June 14, 2016

Town City Construction again allows roofers to work without safety harnesses; ignores violations, fines; endangers employees six times in six years

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. ‒ One hour after six workers atop an Eau Claire residential roof donned required safety harnesses to satisfy a federal safety inspection on May 20, 2016, the inspector returned to the site and found the employees working again without proper fall protection and in danger of falls of up to 14 feet.

June 14, 2016

OSHA, Cleveland Safety Forum renew alliance to protect workers

Participants: U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Cleveland Safety Forum

June 13, 2016

OSHA finds multiple hazards after worker suffers amputation injury at Cleveland manufacturer

Employer name: Soundwich Inc.
Cleveland, Ohio

Citations issued: June 10, 2016

Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued one repeated, 15 serious violations and one other-than-serious violation to Soundwich Inc. after conducting inspections at the aerodynamic and emission control product manufacturer’s Cleveland facility in January and April 2016.