The penalty for serious safety lapses is rising to $10,000 and the penalty for lacking a construction superintendent to a maximum of $25,000. Mayor Bill de Blasio and Department of Buildings Commissioner Rick Chandler also announced an enforcement blitz will target 1,500 sites in the next 90 days.
Schwan’s Global Supply Chain has been fined $172K by OSHA.
OSHA has issued Elan Chemical Co. of Newark, N.J., 17 citations.
OSHA has issued multiple citations to the Yannuzzi Group of Kinnelon, N.J.
Key numbers for EH&S professionals are the proposed $595 million for OSHA and $397 million for MSHA. According to DOL, the OSHA budget provides resources to increase safety and security at chemical facilities and improve response procedures when major incidents occur.
"There was a failure to identify the risk posed by the high-pressure vent systems when carrying out intrusive maintenance work. ConocoPhillips failed to put in place appropriate process isolations to isolate the high-pressure vent from the work site," said HSE Inspector John Hawkins. "It is only a matter of good fortune these incidents didn't result in a serious, tragic incident."
The Pennsylvania company notified OSHA last August that an employee suffered a double toe amputation when he lost control of a lawn mower he was operating on a wet, grassy slope; this happened less than three months after OSHA investigated another rollover incident in which an employee sustained serious injuries and was hospitalized, according to the agency.
The injured worker's employer, TimkenSteel, was named a severe violator by OSHA in 2015.
The manufacturer supplies auto parts to Kia and Hyundai.
The December 2015 inspections at 10 coal mines and seven metal and nonmental mines resulted in 163 citations and five orders.
The citations come following a worker injury at a Colorado Springs plant.
Lake Compounce Theme Park of Bristol, Conn., faces $70,200 in fines.
The Roof Doctor Inc. has been cited, for the eighth time since 2012, for fall protection violations. This time, it faces six willful violations and a $427,000 fine for exposing workers to fall hazards without adequate fall protection.
A S General Construction faces $188,760 in OSHA proposed fines.
OSHA has ordered the employer to pay lost wages, along with $10,000 in punitive damages and $3,060.02 in attorney's fees, and also to expunge the driver's employment records.
OSHA has cited Subfloor Systems and issued $66,990 in proposed penalties.
The 2014 citations are under appeal to the Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals, but state law requires employers to correct hazards even if the violations are under appeal unless a "stay of abatement" is granted, and the energy company's stay of abatement request was denied by the board.
In an effort to increase overall rail safety, enforcement has been stepped-up.
OSHA has cited Genpak for failing to implement specific procedures to prevent machinery from starting up during maintenance and servicing and also for exposing workers to fall hazards from unguarded platforms.
A and S Tree Service Faces $44,000 in fines.