OSHA Inspection: LEBUS MINUFACTURING COMPANY

Issued

Mar 12, 1990

Abate by

Dec 26, 1990

Penalty

Initial $630 · Current $630

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
hazard of being struck by bundles of steel rods on a gravity type roller
conveyor while the employees were performing maintenance on the conveyor
on December 7, 1989. Safety training instructions and procedures were
not implemented to assure that (1) the conveyor would not be loaded with
bundles of steel bar stock by the yard crane, and if loaded, (2) the
bundles would be blocked, barricaded, or otherwise prevented from
movement, past a given point to prevent the bundle from hitting the
employees.
Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable abatement method to
correct the hazard is to enforce an adequate plant lock-out procedure
such as the stipulated by ANSI Z244.1-1982 Sec. 4&5, American National
Standard of Minimum Safety Requirements for Lock-out/Tag-out of energy
sources for Personnel protection, and ANSI B20.1-1976, Sec. 5.02.5 and
5.05, Safety Standard for Conveyors and Related Equipment. Essential
elements of the lockout procedure would include:
1) The selection of the appropriate lock-out point and device or method
of lock-out, for conveyor de-activation.
2) Establish a written procedure and policy, including training and pre-
assignment verification of compliance with procedure to assure the
de-activition of the conveyor operaion prior to employees exposure.
3) Periodically evaluate the program and procedure and strictly enforce
all its provisions.