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OSHA Inspection: SANDERSON FARMS, INC.

Accident-driven inspection · Safety discipline

On , OSHA opened an accident-driven safety inspection of SANDERSON FARMS, INC. in TRAVIS BATTE FARM, MANNING DRIVE, 84 EAST, LAUREL, MS 39440 (NAICS 000000). OSHA activity number 100372572.

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Site address
TRAVIS BATTE FARM, MANNING DRIVE, 84 EAST
City
LAUREL
State
MS
ZIP
39440
Mailing
P. O. 988, LAUREL, MS 39440
Inspection type
Accident-driven (A)
Scope
Partial (B)
Discipline
Safety
Advance notice
No
Union status
B
Opened
Closing conference
Case closed
Data loaded
NAICS code
000000
SIC code (legacy)
2048
Employees
25
Ownership type
A
Industry flags
Manufacturing safety.

1 citation on file for this inspection.

5(a)(1)

Deleted Serious 1 instance 1 exposed
Issued
Nov 7, 1985
Abate by
Nov 13, 1985
Penalty
Initial $360 · Current $360
Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970:  The
employer did not furnish employment and a place of employment which were
free from recognized hazards that were causing or likely to cause death
or serious physical harm to employees in that employees were exposed to:
a) Seven thousand two hundred (7,200) volts of electricity from a power
line passing adjacent to an unloading area on the Travis Batte
Chicken Farm House #3 feed bin.  Exposing employee to a serious
electrical shock hazard.
One feasible and acceptable method of abatement, among others, is to
remove the power line from the unloading area.
Recent events (2)
  • · I (S) $360.00
  • · Z (S) $360.00

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