Employer name: Sanoh America Inc., 1849 Industrial Dr., Findlay, Ohio                  

Citations issued: April 18, 2016

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

Employer name: Bobby Campbell Roofing Inc.

Inspection site: 558 Pullman Circle, St. Augustine, Florida 32084

Citations issued: Citations were issued to the employer on April 16.

Employer’s names: Stephens Plumbing Inc.

Inspection site: 2050 Eastern Blvd., Montgomery, Alabama 36117

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Just six months after citing a global equipment provider to the biopharma industry for exposing workers to hazardous levels of hexavalent chromium and potentially deafening noise as they welded and grinded stainless steel and other alloy steels, federal investigators found the company has failed to take steps to protect its workers at its Springfield facility.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. ‒ A 42-year-old laborer leak testing joints inside a 54-inch round pipe suffered fatal blunt force injuries in October 2015, when an inflatable “bladder” ruptured at a Springfield waste-water treatment plant. Inspectors from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found his employer, Henderson Construction of Central Illinois Inc., failed to train him properly on the testing procedure.

BISMARCK, N.D. ‒ Two Bismarck companies have been cited by federal safety inspectors for failing to protect workers from fall hazards of up to 18 feet at a residential home construction site in the 4600 block of Greyhawk Lane in February.

Employer name: Premier Roofing Company LLC and Walter Construction LTD

Worksite: Multi-family housing re-roofing project in Denver

Citations issued: April 18, 2016

Employer’s names: Owen-Ames-Kimball Co., and Stevens and Layton Inc.

Inspection site:  Intersection of Midway Blvd. and Edgewater Drive, Port Charlotte, Florida 33952

BEAR CREEK, Wis. – A Wisconsin food cannery faces $143,550 in federal penalties after a 35-year-old worker fell more than 17 feet into an empty sauerkraut vat and broke multiple bones. The inspection that followed was the fourth time since 2011 that the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited GLK Foods LLC for failing to protect workers from fall and machine hazards.

ELGIN, Ill. ‒ Despite the fact that preventable falls account for nearly 40 percent of all deaths in the construction industry, some employers continue to ignore the dangers and put their workers at serious risk.

Employer name: Dollar General Corp.

Inspection site: 34300 Mississippi Highway 35, Vaiden, Mississippi 39176

Citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations to the employer on April 8 for four repeated and one serious safety violation.

Employer name: Quick Roofing LLC

Inspection Site: 628 Maple Point Drive, Conroe, Texas

Citations issued: April 14, 2016

Employer’s name: Cooper University Hospital

Inspection site: One Cooper Plaza, Camden, New Jersey

Citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations to Cooper Hospital for nine serious and six other-than-serious  safety and health violations.

Employer name: Alfa Laval Inc., global manufacturer of technologies in heat transfer, separation and fluid handling

Inspection Site: 12249-B FM 529, Houston, Texas

Citations issued: April 11, 2016

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Recent federal inspections of Florida construction sites finds Jasper Contractors Inc., a Georgia-based roofing company, is continuing its seven-year history of ignoring safety and health laws and putting workers at risk of serious injury or death.

Employer name: Breedlove Foods Inc.

Location: 1818 N. Martin Luther King Blvd., Lubbock, Texas

Date Citation Issued: April 12, 2016

HOLDREGE, Neb. ‒ After two workers suffered partial amputations of their index fingers in separate incidents in October 2015, federal investigators found numerous machines lacked safety guards at the Holdrege facility of Becton, Dickinson and Company, a global medical technology company.

PORTLAND, OREGON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration reminds employers that the agency covers safety and health conditions not specifically covered by the U.S. Coast Guard on all vessels within three nautical miles of shore. 

Regardless of whether they are inspected or uninspected, all vessels must report fatalities to OSHA at 800-321-OSHA within 8 hours. Vessels must report all in-patient hospitalizations of one or more employees, amputations, or loss of an eye within 24 hours. 

Employer name: U.S. Postal Service Network Distribution Center, 4000 109^th St., Urbandale, Iowa         

Citations issued: April 6, 2016

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

Des Moines Area Office cited the postal facility for two repeated and one serious safety violations.

Employer name: Williamson Plumbing and Heating Inc., doing business as Roto-Rooter Services Co., 4197 East Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, Pennsylvania   

Site: 1857 Pebble Court, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania