Alabama Farmers Cooperative was cited for safety and health violations for exposing workers at its Decatur facility to combustible dust and other hazards.  Included in the violations was failure to reduce the accumulation of, and use approved electrical equipment in the presence of, combustible dust.  Employees were exposed to nuisance dust 1.6 times higher than [...]

Cyclone Drilling Inc. of Bismarck, ND, was cited by OSHA for safety & health violations, with proposed penalties of $65.6k.  Included in the serious violations were failure to provide electrical covers, and repair or replace damaged and improperly strung flexible cords. Click here to read the OSHA News Release dated 4/10/12.  

OSHA cited poultry processor, KD Acquisition I LLC dba Coleman Natural Foods, of Gainesville, FL.  Included were serious violations in which the company failed to train workers handling hazardous materials, provide written lockout/tagout procedures to shut down the energy sources of equipment, conduct an annual inspection of procedures to verify accuracy and perform complete lockout/tagout [...]

A construction company in England was fined when an employee was seriously injured while using a drill to beak-up concrete to erect a sign.  The drill pierced a 415 volt underground cable, resulting in an electrical explosion and serious burns to the employee. Click here to read the Solicitor’s article dated 3/30/12.

Tsudis Chocolate Company of Pittsburgh, PA, was cited for safety violations including failure to lockout a machine that caused a head injury to an employee when it started up inadvertantly.   In addition, repeat violations involved failure to provide workers with adequate training in safe energy control and electrical work practices, and serious violations involving deficient [...]

OSHA proposed fines of $171,300 to Bath Iron Works for violations of workplace safety standards at its shipyad in Augusta, ME.  Included in the electrical hazards was an unqualified employee operating an overhead crane, unguarded electrical equipment, and exposed and damaged electrical sheathing. Click here to read the OSHA News Release dated 4/2/12.

OSHA cited BWAY Corp of Atlanta, GA, for safety & health violations at its Dayton, NJ, plastics manufacturing facility.  Repeat violations included failure to develop lockout/tagout procedures for energy sources of specific equipment, conduct and certify monthly crane hook inspections, and protect electrical live parts with approved enclosures.  Serious violations included failure to ensure that [...]

OSHA issued 13 violations to Sanoh America Inc. of Findlay, OH, proposing penalties of $83K.   A repeat violation was issued for failure to develop, document and utilize procedures to control potentially hazardous energy in relation to an incident that occurred in 2011.  Twelve serious violations involved  failing to install energy-isolating devices where needed, isolate energy [...]

Bridgford Foods Corp of Chicago was cited by OSHA for 22 safety & health violations.  Included were serious electrical safety violations such as not enclosing live electrical equipment, missing electrical ground pins, not inspecting the power cords of damaged equipment and not covering unused circuit breakers.  Serious health violations included failure to provide annual hazardous material technical-level [...]

Bradken, Inc., a producer of large steel alloy castings for mining, freight rail, and steel industries worldwide, has been cited for 27 serious violations & 7 other-than-serious violations.  The serious violations include failure to: repair damaged and unguarded electrical equipment, ensure accessibility to electrical shut-off devices,  ground electrical equipment, properly splice electrical cords, and regularly [...]