OSHA Inspection: GENCORP AEROJET ORDNANCE

Issued

Dec 13, 1991

Abate by

Dec 16, 1991

Penalty

Initial $4,500 · Current $4,500

General-duty citation text

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) inadvertent deflagration, detonation and fragmentation of primers and
their related machine components due to overfilling the Kingsbury Prime
Case machines (SN-BA 1088) feeder howl with an amount of
ammunition/explosives (primers) in excess of one hour's supply in Bldg.
037--Assembly Bay.  Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable
abatement method to correct this hazard would be to establish a limit line
inside the feeder bowl to insure a safe supply.

Issued

Dec 13, 1991

Abate by

Dec 16, 1991

Penalty

Initial $4,500 · Current $4,500

General-duty citation text

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) inadvertent deflagration, detonation and fragmentation of explosive
materials in that employees were allowed to manually handle primers inside
barrier and shield guards located around the Kingsbury Prime Case Assembly
machine, SN BA-1088, in Building 037.

Issued

Dec 13, 1991

Abate by

Dec 16, 1991

Penalty

Initial $4,500 · Current $4,500

General-duty citation text

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) sources of static electricity which were likely to cause inadvertent
deflagration, detonation and fragmentation of explosive materials in that
a static electrical monitoring program was not established to monitor and
prevent static electricity in Building 037 Assembly Bay as demonstrated
by: a) failure to measure humidity within the area, b) use of air hose
around prime case machine, c) lack of grounding of employees who used a
nonconductive box for access to the Kingsbury Prime Case machines feeder
bowl.

Issued

Dec 13, 1991

Abate by

Dec 16, 1991

Penalty

Initial $4,500 · Current $4,500

Issued

Dec 13, 1991

Abate by

Dec 16, 1991

Penalty

Initial $31,500 · Current $4,500 Reduced