OSHA Inspection: HANOVER FOODS CORPORATION

Issued

Aug 26, 1998

Abate by

Aug 31, 1998

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $7,000

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 the hazard of falling from and /or with an elevated work
platform that was not
secured to the lifting carriage and /or forks of a powered industrial
truck:
(a)Frozen Repack Plant - An employee, sanitizing walls while standing on a
platform supported by the forks of a lift truck, fell approximately twenty
(20) feet
when the platform was pulled off the forks because it was not secured to
the
truck, as occurred June 27, 1998.
Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable method to correct this
hazard is to provide
and secure safety platform(s) to lifting carriage(s) and/or forks or
utilize scissors lifts.rs

Issued

Aug 26, 1998

Abate by

Aug 31, 1998

Penalty

Initial $7,000 · Current $7,000

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 the hazard of falling from an unsecured work platform
being moved while in
an elevated position by a powered industrial truck:
(a)Frozen Repack Plant - An employee sanitizing walls while standing on a
platform
supported by the forks of a lift truck was exposed to a fall hazard when
the lift
driver was backing up with the platform in an elevated position,
approximately
twenty (20) feet high, as occurred June 27, 1998.
Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable method to correct this
hazard is to utilize a
scissors lift or an aerial basket type lift.

Issued

Aug 26, 1998

Abate by

Aug 31, 1998

Penalty

Initial $2,500 · Current $1,575 Reduced

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 death or serious physical harm from moving parts of a lift
truck:
(a)Frozen Repack Plant - An employee, sanitizing walls while standing on a
platform supported by the forks of a lift truck, was exposed to unguarded
chain
and sprockets and moving mast parts adjacent to the platform, as occurred
June
27, 1998.
Among other methods, one feasible and acceptable method to correct this
hazard is to utilize a
scissors lift or an aerial, basket type lift.

Issued

Aug 26, 1998

Abate by

Aug 31, 1998

Penalty

Initial $25,000 · Current $20,000 Reduced