Ashley Furniture has agreed to pay penalties of $1.75 million, to correct all cited violations, and to retain a vice president for safety who is responsible for managing a corporate-wide program to identify and evaluate prevention and control of machine hazards.
"Employers should not wait for an OSHA inspection to identify fire, explosion, and electric shock hazards as well as those associated with flammable and combustible chemicals in the workplace," said Eugene Stewart, OSHA's area director in the Jackson Office.
For those who attended the 2015 National Safety Council Congress & Expo nine months ago, the facility’s layout and downtown Atlanta are familiar territory.
The incident happened at a Nature’s Path subsidiary in Wisconsin
OSHA has proposed more than $58,000 in penalties.
Industrial Packaging Corp. has been cited for one willful and eight serious violations.
The agency says employers failed to power down a cabinet before electrician work began.
The steel bar manufacturer now faces $121K in fines.
OSHA has cited GE's Circleville, Ohio, plant for two repeated and three serious safety violations.
The medical technology firm Becton, Dickinson and Company was cited twice for machine hazards in 2015, according to the agency.
L&I cited the utility district for five serious violations and for each assessed the maximum penalty of $7,000.
The company was cited for similar violations in 2013.
Kenneth Snider Inc. has been fined $59,000 for the violations.
The company allegedly retaliated against workers after being cited by OSHA.
The conference will take place in Sugar Grove, Illinois.
The best and brightest 2016 shows include NFMT 2016, which takes place in March 2016 in Baltimore, followed by AIHce 2016, ASSE's Safety 2016, NFPA's Conference & Expo VPPPA's national conference, WEFTEC 2016, and the 2016 National Safety Congress & Expo.
A centralized lockout station prevents confusion and clutter. Maximizing space, in addition to streamlining operations, also helps to make a facility safer.
Before any alternative methodology is selected, a hazard assessment should be performed for each task.
OSHA says that Crothall Laundry Services failed to prevent equipment from operating.
Schwan’s Global Supply Chain has been fined $172K by OSHA.